grating

Example Sentences

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This widens the gap with Grana Padano, a competitor with less stringent production rules, as well as other cheeses meant for grating.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

"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 • Jan. 27, 2026

Ms. Sears heckled Ms. Spanberger throughout the debate, and it was grating.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

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 • Sep. 9, 2025

When he spoke, there was a grating sound at the back of his throat which they both ignored.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan