Grates

Word GRATES
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ɡɹeɪts/

Definitions and meanings of "Grates"

What do we mean by grates?

A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot

A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning

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The word "grates" in example sentences

The only thing that grates is his attempts to portray them as some sort of righteous indignation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What really grates is the treatment this women has received in the press. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(All right, washing the grill grates is another matter, or you can simply blast away the dirt with the preheat mode.) ❋ Unknown (2004)

They put this lion within grates, bound him in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon, v. 9. ❋ Unknown (1721)

With these two what grates is that they allowed themselves to be used by the enemy’s AgitProp arm, the BBC, to attack the Conservative party. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Second Waffl3zz, even though his myspace-style name grates on me like fingernails on a chalkboard. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That locution grates on the ears of Kenneth Smith of Newark, Delaware. ❋ William Safire (2003)

How the first word grates, and the second comes out so smoothly. ❋ Roger Thompson Finlay (N/A)

If there be those yet upon whom the notion grates that play and the looks of the school should be counted in as educational factors, why, let them hurry up and catch on. ❋ Unknown (1902)

More than that -- earnestness and reality are classed together under the head of "bad form," the vital word grates on the emasculate brain of the society man, and he compensates himself for his inward consciousness of inferiority by assuming easy airs of insolence. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

At times, the baseball jargon grates like an excited radio sports commentator breaking through the peace of a summer picnic. ❋ Elena Seymenliyska (2012)

That name grates on my ears like nails on a chalkboard. on October 13th, 2008: ❋ Unknown (2008)

See, I have this stupid problem where my knee caps are loose and slide off to the side so everything kind of grates in there. ❋ Hamletwildie (2004)

The list of the top four "winners" had my blood boiling – in part because the current winner/loser paradigm in DOE’s lingo grates on me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just like Nightwing shouldn’t have called himself Robin-Man, this Red Arrow name grates on my nerves. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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