grate

Thanks for several chuckles — especially your response to the reader who questioned the existence of editors at the Times: “Thats a grate queston.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

I like to grate the cheese from a fresh block or chunk and add it once my soup is done heating up.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

The next day, the grate and the cinder blocks were still there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

"I had this feeling like a heavy metal grate pressing down on my face.. I was telling myself to get up, but I couldn't get up."

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2026

The only way into the forecastle is through a grate on the main deck.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

“The name Homeland Security grates on a lot of people, understandably,” she wrote.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The next day is deep-clean Monday, when First Watch dishwashers scrub coffee urns and the greasy grates where bacon sizzles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026

Her in-laws have installed metal sheet grates over theirs, marking a “huge cost” for mitigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

Yes, it has become a commercial beast and the rampant hyping of the brand grates, but the essence of what makes the Lions special is strong and apparently unbreakable.

From BBC ● May 7, 2025

The stores were shuttered, blocked with crisscrossed grates knotted with chains and enormous padlocks.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

The other day, I grated two enormous zucchini into a bowl containing a quarter-can of pumpkin, brown sugar, cocoa powder and enough chopped bittersweet chocolate to make the whole operation look suspiciously like brownie batter.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

But if you’re a dipping sauce kind of person, mix the leftover egg yolks with 1 cup of oil, lemon juice, grated garlic and some salt and pepper to make an aioli.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Pesto is made here with basil, extra virgin olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and grated cheese, all ground to a thick paste.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

As fatigue -- and anger at army scandals -- grew, that approach grated.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

The wind whipped down the open walkway, through various sideshows, fun houses, and arcades, all grated over and shut down for the night.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

The opera company’s summer season featured impressive stagings of Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte’ and Gregory Spears’s ‘Fellow Travelers,’ as well as grating versions of ‘Oklahoma’ and ‘Madama Butterfly.’

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

It’s a little grating to see boorish Tony offer him business tips.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Even though I find loudcasting intensely grating, I have never registered an official complaint and have only occasionally asked other passengers to turn the volume down on their device.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

Working, after all, is how a majority of people must spend most of their waking hours, and toiling away in an industry or at a position you find grating will undoubtedly make you miserable.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026

Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë