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.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GRATING
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
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.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED
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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
6  These shutters were divided into long, narrow slats, and they masked the entire length of the grating.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
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...
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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
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 ...
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 ...
12  When he approached the grating he forgot everything.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
13  This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about two feet square.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV—PRISONER
14  This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but the hinges remained.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—BRUNESEAU.
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.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
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.