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