run into the ground
Example Sentences
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Fey revealed the lounge has fallen apart after literally being run into the ground by too many Five-Timers Club sketches.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
I wanted to quit the show before it got really bad and run into the ground.
From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022
Despite that public backing, though, Dicker was dropped for seven games and was "run into the ground".
From BBC • Nov. 13, 2020
“Obviously, the people at the hospitals are not only being extremely overworked and run into the ground, but when you think about what they’re doing, it’s amazing,” Zimmerman said.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2020
In the seventeenth century, the art had run its course, and gave place to a taste for cameos, which in its turn was run into the ground.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs
