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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:

Index finger proudly raised, the hand's relentless bobbing is meant to grate and does a fine job of it.
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.
Many translations into English of the nouns le con and la queue, for example, grate.
But, the Enquirer reports, analysis by arachnologist Brent Opell of a spider web covering the grate indicates it had been undisturbed for at least a month prior to JonBenet's death.
--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!