run into the ground
Example Sentences
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It’s a winning start, and likely means that the only company being run into the ground is the fictional one at the heart of the Ladder.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
But as the Framers could have warned you, a nation that was dreamed up chiefly by lawyers was almost overdetermined to be run into the ground by them one day.
From Slate • Oct. 27, 2023
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
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
