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"Grate" in a Sentence (25 examples)
Dan entered the facility through a damaged metal grate.
The white, snowy cloths, the rich window-hangings, the warm tints of the walls, the sparkle of the fire in the steel grate, gave the room an air of elegance and cheerfulness.
Tom's wide-eyed optimism is beginning to grate on my nerves.
Peel the horseradish and grate it finely.
Grate cheese over the top and serve.
Scientists recommend further research on ways to keep enset trees healthy and on finding improved technologies to make it easier to extract the pulp, grate the corm, and chop the fiber in the fermented kocho.
Grate the carrots finely.
The biggest bedroom had a small, ornate fireplace on one wall which had seen recent use judging by the ashes crumbling in the grate.
Grate the chocolate and work it into the dough.
Can you grate bread?
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The grate stopped the sheep from escaping from their field.
a secret grate of iron bars
Lances (only shown at Stoke D'Abernon) were commonly made of ash, about 13 feet long. A ring of metal (grate or grapper) was fastened to the shaft and during a fight[…]
[…] and a heavy metal ring, called the grate or graper, fastened to the shaft below the grip. The grate rested against the knight's breastplate and relieved the hand and arm of the full shock of contact. The metallic head (or socket) of the war lance was usually leaf shaped, while that of the tilting lance, at least from[…]
to grate a window
I need to grate the cheese before the potato is cooked.
1856, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part 3 Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling The gate suddenly grated. It was Lestiboudois; he came to fetch his spade, that he had forgotten. He recognised Justin climbing over the wall, and at last knew who was the culprit who stole his potatoes.
The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
Listening to his teeth grate all day long drives me mad.
The chalk grated against the board.
She’s nice enough, but she can begin to grate if there is no-one else to talk to.
2015, Art Levy in Florida Trend, Roland Martin is a Florida 'Icon' one of the issues that's kind of grating me a little bit is weed control.
News, my good lord Rome […] grates me.
Coho or Coffee[…]however ingrate or insapory it seems at first, it becomes grate and delicious enough by custom.
c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise He promisd her a grate reward
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