Words similar to grating

Example sentences for: grating

How can you use “grating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Hatoum's grating nihilism always needs to revert to theories or story lines extraneous to the actual object to have any validity, with lots of special pleading on the feminist and Third World fronts.
Without going into detail on each one of these, the difficulty I see is, for instance, with raucous appetite , for raucous means harsh, strident, grating and is commonly associated with voice , where, indeed, it is listed.
The famous sardine fisheries finally closed down in the 1940s as a result of over-fishing, but the waterfront district of timbered canneries, immortalized by the novelist John Steinbeck as “a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia,” has found a new lease on life today as a tourist attraction with souvenir shops, delightful cozy boutiques, and artists’ studios.
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?"
An amplifier was used to produce an analog signal, the voltage of which was proportional to the sarcomere length, based on the median intensity profile of the first-order diffraction pattern [ 12 ] . The system was calibrated before every experiment with a test grating (12.