grating

Example Sentences

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But what’s particularly grating is that this is not just a strategy to avoid bad reviews for as long as possible.

From Salon

Christopher watched the two sphinxes carving into the mountain as they approached; the rock gave way to their claws with a high, grating sound.

From Literature

"There's a grating that keeps getting covered in leaves and branches, it's never getting emptied so water comes over the top and just floods straight through."

From BBC

As she turned over ideas for a pseudonym, Tergit thought of the German word Gitter—the metal grill or grating on a window or a gate—and reversed the syllables.

From The Wall Street Journal

She’d been watching Molly before this, waiting for her to turn back to normal, to go back to grating on her nerves and breaking her rules with impunity.

From Literature