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Example sentences for: grate

How can you use “grate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

After all, even this architectural utopia has turned out to have its downsides: onerous zoning and architectural restrictions, rules about what you can and cannot do with your garden, a general atmosphere of community-mindedness that can grate on a soul, if that soul (like Truman) starts to develop a live-free-or-die approach to things.
(His nouns in this chapter do begin to grate.)
Many translations into English of the nouns le con and la queue, for example, grate.
The Enquirer also says Ramsey tried to convince authorities that an intruder had entered the house by lifting a grate outside the basement.
--your soul swirling down a grate.Big D, the City That Loves To Win!Come buy a ticket only $3 to the Sixth-Floor Museum (formerly the Texas Book Depository) from which scowling Lee Harvey Oswald shot President John F. Kennedy!