English example sentences with "grating"

Something is grating on her nerves.
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A cacophony is a mixture of grating noises.
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That music is grating on my nerves.
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Next morning, he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged.
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Here, by the goddess and her gifts renowned, / Sidonian Dido built a stately shrine. / All brazen rose the threshold; brass was round / the door-posts; brazen doors on grating hinges sound.
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"There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse."
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In the window opening he set small branches about an inch in diameter both vertically and horizontally, and so woven that they formed a substantial grating that could withstand the strength of a powerful animal.
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At first, I thought it was kinda funny that the villain always referred to himself in the third person, but now it's rather grating.
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William Ellis has spent most of this day grating carrots.
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"Their music is strident and grating." "The word is 'dissonant.'"
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Be careful when grating.
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The door must have been open, for the man disappeared suddenly from view and they failed to hear the usual grating of the hinges.
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I can imagine grinding sesame seeds, but it's hard for me to picture grating them.
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