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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.
--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!
Many translations into English of the nouns le con and la queue, for example, grate.
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.
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.