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Example sentences for: grating

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The schlock-waltz score (at times bordering on calliope music) by Charlie Mole is one of the most grating ever written: It has a way of making the lines seem facetious.
But I can't think of two more grating campaign personalities joined on a single ticket than Bush and Dole.
Sankt-Peterburg is awkward, is un-Slavic, un-Russian, grating.
So you can imagine how grating it is to me that Mayor Giuliani wants to spend up to one billion dollars of public funds building George Steinbrenner and his Yankees a new baseball stadium.
The film is sappy and grating: Even the easy to please Gene Siskel calls it "utterly unctuous" and asks, "Who would want Mork at their bedside?"