grating
Example Sentences
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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
As she turned over ideas for a pseudonym, Tergit thought of the German word Gitter—the metal grill or grating on a window or a gate—and reversed the syllables.
She’d been watching Molly before this, waiting for her to turn back to normal, to go back to grating on her nerves and breaking her rules with impunity.
From Literature
Granted, I also found this grating, depending on when these responses felt warranted.
From Salon
Or maybe you love what a little ginger does to soups or oatmeal but resent the peeling and grating it demands.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
