grate
Example Sentences
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How to grate the mozzarella cheese and mix it with the ricotta and parmesan.
From Literature
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We kindled firewood, set it between rocks, and balanced a metal grate over them, an old thing Togbe had found from the days they used to smoke fish at home.
From Literature
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But what’s particularly grating is that this is not just a strategy to avoid bad reviews for as long as possible.
From Salon
Fearing he was liable to be grated like a carrot, Christopher carried him to the door and called—“Frank? Grandfather?”—but the old man was nowhere in sight.
From Literature
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"There's a grating that keeps getting covered in leaves and branches, it's never getting emptied so water comes over the top and just floods straight through."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.