Grating

Something is grating on her nerves.

A cacophony is a mixture of grating noises.

That music is grating on my nerves.

Next morning, he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged.

Here, by the goddess and her gifts renowned, / Sidonian Dido built a stately shrine. / All brazen rose the threshold; brass was round / the door-posts; brazen doors on grating hinges sound.

"There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse."

In the window opening he set small branches about an inch in diameter both vertically and horizontally, and so woven that they formed a substantial grating that could withstand the strength of a powerful animal.

At first, I thought it was kinda funny that the villain always referred to himself in the third person, but now it's rather grating.

William Ellis has spent most of this day grating carrots.

"Their music is strident and grating." "The word is 'dissonant.'"