Synonym: basis, cause, dregs, foundation, garden, motive, premise, real estate, reason, sediment. Similar words: groundswell, on the grounds of, ground, playground, background, ungrounded, common ground, groundwater. Meaning: [graʊnd] n. 1. your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief 2. the enclosed land around a house or other building 3. a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.) 4. a justification for something existing or happening 5. sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid.
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151. The committee ruled against all-night opening mainly on safety grounds.
152. Many estate workers lived in cottages in the grounds of the castle.
153. A divorce was sought and granted on grounds of incompatibility.
154. The law forbids discrimination on the grounds of race or religion.
155. After a tour of the grounds, the guests were fed and watered.
156. If you continue to behave like this you will give them/provide them with grounds for dismissing you.
157. They decreed an end to discrimination on grounds of age.
158. He resigned from his post on the grounds of ill-health.
159. The couple separated on the grounds of irretrievable breakdown .
160. Flea markets are happy hunting grounds for people looking for antiques at good prices.
160. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
161. We decided to take a stroll in the hotel grounds.
162. Mrs. Snavely got a divorce on the grounds of desertion.
163. She divorced her husband on the grounds of mental cruelty.
164. We oppose the bill, on the grounds that it discriminates against women.
165. They raised the money to buy the house and two hundred acres of grounds.
166. She tried to think how to refute the argument on moral grounds.
167. She was turned down on the grounds of lack of experience .
168. Snakes abounded in the palace grounds, as did ants.
169. There are grounds for impeachment.
170. On what grounds can they deny access?
171. He did it on philosophical grounds, and never accepted the medal or the money.
172. Several Wall Street analysts also believe the companies have grounds to appeal.
173. Grounds include traditional white lead primer, alkyd primer, acrylic primer, oil emulsion grounds and gesso.
174. Their applications were refused on the grounds that they did not meet the admission criteria.
175. A good ground is easy to find; hoisting lugs on the engine or the alternator mounting brackets make good grounds.
176. The Penal Code of 1977 only allows abortions on health grounds or because of pregnancies as a result of rape.
177. They would operate from roomy vicarages with ample grounds and were welcome guests at the highest tables in their parishes.
178. Thus in Britain the grounds for review are summarized as illegality, irrationality or procedural impropriety by the public agency being challenged.
179. Yet how can you tell the precise grounds.of righteous or unrighteous anger?
180. The sacred, the past, ancestor worship seem to be the chosen grounds in most cases.
More similar words: groundswell, on the grounds of, ground, playground, background, ungrounded, common ground, groundwater, middle ground, round and round, round, around, round off, all round, round up, go around, all around, surround, come round, get around, by leaps and bounds, bum around, surrounded, surrounding, revolve around, around the corner, turnaround time, group, ethnic group, undergrowth.