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Example sentences for: grate

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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!
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.
This rule is upheld even when a number is specified: a six-foot pole, a tenpenny stamp, a twenty-mile stretch . Yet today this rule is being broken more and more often, and the rot certainly started in America with such terms as materials handling and greetings cards . Nowdays my favorite scientific magazine talks only of drugs firms and chemicals manufacturers , though such expressions must surely grate on the ears of anyone who still has a little feeling for the English language.
(His nouns in this chapter do begin to grate.)