grating
Example Sentences
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The presence of the surly uncle, insufferable in-law, or grating girlfriend at the holiday table can make it hard to truly count one’s blessings.
Special strainers for grating and juicing tomatoes gained a place among kitchen furnishings.
He had high hopes putting a businessman in the White House and, although he found the president’s monster ego grating, Mahan voted for his reelection.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. Sears heckled Ms. Spanberger throughout the debate, and it was grating.
While grating noises and intolerable heat may be experienced in pockets across the city, making it hard to draw direct comparisons, some whole sections of L.A. feel conspicuously beset by these environmental disturbances.
From Los Angeles Times
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