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• The tremor in my left hand is like the ominous grating note of a failing engine.2013, Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies. From the entry sparking
• The portcullis was a thick and heavy but movable grating that was lowered to block an entrance.2001, Paul B. Newman, “Building and Housing”, in Daily Life in the Middle Ages, Jefferson, N.C.; London: McFarland & Company, Inc., page…. From the entry portculli
• As the name implies, grisms are a combination of a transmission grating and a prism.1994, T. M. Herbst, J. T. Rayner, “First Experiences With A Solid ZnSe Grism for Near Infrared Astronomy”, in Ian S. McLean, editor…. From the entry grism
• Where I was big, elbowy and grating, he was small, graceful and smooth.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 4, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 17. From the entry elbowy
• The dungeon master slid a water cup and two bowls of gruel through the grating at the floor.2010, Andrew J. Peters, “The Vain Prince”, in Radclyffe [pseudonym; Lenora Ruth Barot], Stacia Seaman, editors, Myth & Magic: Queer Fairy…. From the entry dungeon master
• Assistants were grating cheese, making gravies, tossing lettuces.1989, Paul Zindel, Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman, page 29. From the entry subchef
• Perhaps Percy Petley had what some of our suave cosmopolitan hoteliers lack; a grating voice and rat-trap delivery.1972, Edward Rodwell, “[The Coast and Beyond] Pioneers of the Tourist Trade”, in Coast Causerie: Stories of the Coast and Beyond, Nairobi…. From the entry maître d'hotel
• Caleb continued to hold his gaze until the familiar grating of the dayshields lowering diverted his attention back over to the terrace doors.2013, Lindsay J. Pryor, Blood Roses. From the entry dayshield
• Anyway, back in the ring, Jericho works on the cut, but Shawn fights off both guys and tries to piledrive Jericho on the grating.2004, Scott Keith, Wrestling's One Ring Circus, page 114. From the entry piledrive
• I urged Josh to speed up, but he only laughed that grating, garbley, evil-sounding laugh of his, whilst thoroughly enjoying my discomfiture.1998, Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry garbley
• Because of the defocusing that occurs when rotated for wavelength tuning, an aberrationally non-corrected concave grating is not naturally suited to high resolution monochromators.1997, Erwin G. Loewen, Evgeny Popov, Diffraction Gratings and Applications, page 253. From the entry aberrationally
• A runner, or streamlet, from other woods joined it at this end, and waited in the pool to pass through the grating to the mills.1927, Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter. From the entry runner
• Soon he heard a soft grating behind the judas, and he felt—more than he saw—that a pair of eyes were peering at him from within.1913, Baroness Orczy, chapter 27, in The Laughing Cavalier. From the entry judas
• The operations of quartzing, charging, skimming, matte handling, firing and grating are carried out at Garfield about the same as at Anaconda and Cananea.1910, R. R. Moore, Recent Reverberatory Smelting Practice, in the Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 89, reprinted in Chemical…. From the entry quartzing
• Optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy utilizes the change in resonance angle of polarized light diffracted by a grating and incoupled into a thin waveguide layer upon binding.2013, Helen Bridle, Waterborne Pathogens: Detection Methods and Applications, page 202. From the entry incouple
• Furthermore, a good light incoupler is also a good light outcoupler and therefore it is important to prevent the incoupled light from hitting back to the grating structure.2005, Zbigniew Jaroszewicz, Frank Wyrowski, Optical Security Systems, page 595402-6. From the entry incoupler
• Now the salted pilchards, known as fairmaids, were washed in a kieve, or huge wooden tray having a grating in the bottom through which the fish scales could drop.1988, John Corin, Fishermen's Conflict: The Story of a Cornish Fishing Port, page 49. From the entry fairmaid

Meaning of grating

1. adjective Harsh and unpleasant.
2. adjective Annoying; tending to annoy.
3. noun A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.

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How do you use grating in a sentence?

Grating is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.”

What is a short sentence with grating?

“Assistants were grating cheese, making gravies, tossing lettuces.”

What does grating mean?

Grating means harsh and unpleasant.