run into the ground
Example Sentences
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“The easiest thing would have been for Robert to plow on until he truly pegged out and by which time the estate probably would have been run into the ground or mismanaged,” Bonneville says.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2025
Former Arsenal and France forward Thierry Henry and ex-Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher have expressed the view, external that modern-day players are being "being treated like cattle" and "run into the ground".
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2025
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
There are dullards in the United States as well as elsewhere; and nothing can well be more ghastly than American humour run into the ground.
From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
