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Example sentences for: grating

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Sankt-Peterburg is awkward, is un-Slavic, un-Russian, grating.
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?"
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.
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.
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.