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    grating example sentences

    grating


    1. She could hear the horns and metal and glass twisting and grating and cracking against itself


    2. The ship moved with a grating noise, the wail quavered with the heaves of the rope


    3. His suggestive comments and the grating, dirty laugh got on everyone's nerves


    4. ’ I said for the millionth time as a nasty grating noise resonates through the barge


    5. his face and let out a rough edged, grating cackle


    6. ’ She said, the whining tone grating on his ears


    7. Years ago he had built a circular gravel driveway around his home and shed, no trees overlapped the area and he had installed wire grating right along the roof guttering


    8. She was climbing up passed him and sneaking along the narrow grating before he found his hiding hole


    9. The cuts were deep, the blade grating against bone as the man slashed each wrist


    10. He pushed the pedal harder but the brakes only juddered in protest, finally giving up their unequal struggle with a long drawn out grating noise

    11. It was obvious that the American's accent was grating on Uncle Hobart's nerves, so I tried to divert his attention before he had the chance to say something that would land us in trouble


    12. The kerosene stove got going, and he closed the grating


    13. a veritable sheet of blood, slowly pooling up and then making its way toward the sewer grating in the center of the lot


    14. Their cab driver slowed as grating wheels scraped against the curb side


    15. My only hope in this world,” said James through grating teeth


    16. This sector is in prison without grating


    17. mellifluous or it might be grating


    18. The sun’s rays broke through the prison-like grating that coated the outside window, creating an intricate pattern that slowly danced across the floor as the minutes rolled by


    19. metal grating lines below his boots rattled noisily as he stalked


    20. barred grating on the door as he passed, he watched the armed

    21. fanning out in strange patterns that the downpour was grating


    22. They both pushed— and the lock gave way with a grating


    23. gave way with a grating


    24. the next morning to a grating call that I hadn’t heard it make


    25. It was a sound of stone grating on stone and it now scraped along the steps towards them, getting louder all the time


    26. "I have a bone to pick with you," Sally began, but her niece immediately said, "Here's Frankie!" and Sally conversed with the girl for several minutes, a pleasant enough task but extremely grating at this juncture


    27. One could hear the grating screech of tank tracks better that way


    28. When the stored interference pattern or grating is subsequently illumi-


    29. is diffracted by the stored grating in such a way that the wave generated by


    30. grating on the stair steps

    31. dimly lit corridor, making his way along the floor grating to where Miriam had her office


    32. grating, leading to and from a few processors that sat around the confines


    33. I couldn’t even feel my teeth grating against each other


    34. Then Harry identified the heavy rumbling, the harsh, grating sounds of metal on cobbled streets


    35. Listen! you hear the grating roar


    36. Her constant chatter in her high pitched squeak was grating with Siri’s nerves and he was determined that he was going to rid the world of this piece of filth


    37. outside the door for the better part of an hour and it was seriously grating on me


    38. Fingering his translator back in his ear, Joey looked at the captain from head to toe and said, “Don’t look at me! I didn’t have anything to do with this!” Joey looked around at people, some of who couldn’t meet his eyes and raised his voice to its grating tone, “I didn’t have a thing to do with any of this shit!”


    39. The last time that Fernanda saw her, trying to keep up with the novice, the iron grating of the cloister had just closed behind her


    40. Meme had indeed signed once she was already behind the iron grating and she did it with the same indifference with which she had allowed herself to be led away

    41. Her liberal, moderate religious outlook had however taken little time before she had become thoroughly irritated and angered by the often intolerant and arrogant attitude of many Israeli Jews, with the misogyny of the ultra-orthodox men particularly grating on her nerves


    42. It was a grating sound followed by a waft of


    43. later the grating sound occurred again, then the new voices


    44. hammering, clanks and grating sounds


    45. The greed and pettiness of those priests and monks had been grating on Nancy for months, apart from bringing popular disrepute to their church for decades now


    46. grating, a tool invented by 19th-century physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer to discern the


    47. With a grating noise and an almost imperceptible, shush of air, the lid lifted off its seating and was placed on edge, on the floor


    48. The first indication of buoyancy was the slight rocking of the vessel, followed by a grating and shrieking noise as the sub moved over the shingle


    49. The beak shut hard on the steel cylinders causing the bony substance to shatter with a shriek of grating metal


    50. There was also no arguing that the man had a passion for entertaining and expressing himself clearly, but there was just something a bit grating about his presence











































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    Synonyms for "grating"

    diffraction grating grating grate gravelly rasping raspy rough scratchy lattice andiron gate abrasive offensive jarring shrill annoying strident

    "grating" definitions

    a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air


    a frame of iron bars to hold a fire


    optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum


    unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound