'grating' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'grating' with 3 example sentences.
- grating adjective
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: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
- grating noun
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: a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
: a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
: 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
Something is grating on her nerves.
That music is grating on my nerves.
A cacophony is a mixture of grating noises.