GRATING in a Sentence
Learn GRATING from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
241 example sentences for GRATING, such as:
1. Their rude manners grate on us.
2. There were red coals in the grate.
3. I can't express how grateful I am.
4. Any help or donations will be gratefully received.
5. I gratefully took the cup of coffee she offered me.
2. There were red coals in the grate.
3. I can't express how grateful I am.
4. Any help or donations will be gratefully received.
5. I gratefully took the cup of coffee she offered me.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of GRATING
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grating
a. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
n. optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 He arrived in time to see an arm passed through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the glass.
2 It had no grating; it opened in the garden and was fastened, according to the fashion of the country, only by a small pin.
3 Supposing that a living being had been so wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square hole, this grating would have prevented it.
4 On raising the latch and crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression as when one enters at the theatre into a grated baignoire, before the grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted.
5 The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this cellar-like half-twilight, one tried to pass the grating, but got no further than six inches beyond it.
6 These shutters were divided into long, narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating.
7 Behind the grating, behind the shutter, one perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black veil.
8 A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
9 A cold, harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting breeze blew in the cage of these doves.
10 There stood a tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV—IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ...
11 This grating was nothing else than a piece of the brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM ...
12 When he approached the grating he forgot everything.
13 This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about two feet square.
14 This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but the hinges remained.
15 It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance.
Example Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1 Their rude manners grate on us.
2 After a while her voice really started to grate on me.
3 There were red coals in the grate.
4 The screams of the quarreling children grate on her nerves.
5 I gratefully took the cup of coffee she offered me.
6 Any help or donations will be gratefully received.
7 We would be grateful for prompt payment of your account.
8 I am infinitely grateful that you are in my small life.
9 I can't express how grateful I am.
10 We will be grateful for whatever amount you can afford.
11 You are such a talented and smart member of our team and we are truly grateful of having you.
12 Maybe god wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,so that when we finally meet the perple,we will know how to be grateful.
13 Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one,so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
14 I sincerely feel a grateful interest in each return of this happy anniversary.
15 They added color and dignity to our program and made the day a day to remember, and we are truly grateful.