Usa "gridiron" in una frase
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1. The recent stories in the news about our leaders on the gridiron, courts, diamonds and Hollywood celebrities should be the first clue that we should look to teachers and parents for inspiration and guidance, despite my recent suggestion about trusting our elders
2. For this he was put to death by being roasted on a gridiron
3. "Saint Laurence on a gridiron," added Laurie, blandly finishing the sentence
4. If it wasn’t for the priesthood, Brown would’ve gone pro but his calling seemed a little higher than the gridiron
5. And the oncommonest workman can't show himself oncommon in a gridiron,—for a gridiron IS a gridiron," said Joe, steadfastly impressing it upon me, as if he were endeavouring to rouse me from a fixed delusion, "and you may haim at what you like, but a gridiron it will come out, either by your leave or again your leave, and you can't help yourself—"
6. He had a bag of money in his pocket, like a pudding in the cloth, and on that property married a young person in bedfurniture, with great rejoicings; the whole population of Portsmouth (nine in number at the last census) turning out on the beach to rub their own hands and shake everybody else's, and sing "Fill, fill!" A certain dark-complexioned Swab, however, who wouldn't fill, or do anything else that was proposed to him, and whose heart was openly stated (by the boatswain) to be as black as his figurehead, proposed to two other Swabs to get all mankind into difficulties; which was so effectually done (the Swab family having considerable political influence) that it took half the evening to set things right, and then it was only brought about through an honest little grocer with a white hat, black gaiters, and red nose, getting into a clock, with a gridiron, and listening, and coming out, and knocking everybody down from behind with the gridiron whom he couldn't confute with what he had overheard
7. When he reached the basketball court, he drew himself up to full gridiron size and rounded on his visitor
8. Whether you’re tearing down a professional gridiron with two three-hundred-pound defensive ends on your tail, playing Mozart at Carnegie Hall, working complex calc problems at a desk, or navigating the wilds of uncharted jungles, adrenaline is a good thing to have on your side