How to Use grating in a Sentence

grating

1 of 2 noun

• On the windows there were gratings like those in liquor stores.
  — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• It is made from food-safe stainless steel and features a sharp grating blade.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 24 June 2021
• Quiet luxury has to be the most overused—and grating—phrase of the year.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 June 2023
• And proof can be found in their grating apologies that don't apologize.
  — Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2020
• The seller will load the grating for transport, but won't secure the load.
  — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 7 Nov. 2025
• Whether grating, shredding or slicing, this stainless steel grater with four sides can do the job.
  — Dana Holmes, CNN Underscored, 6 Apr. 2021
• The key is in the grating, which cuts down on gluten formation and creates lightness.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2022
• The grating image mad Aggies used 20 years ago to spur changes?
  — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 12 July 2022
• The planar lens both collimates and steers the light where it is then scattered out-of-plane by a grating.
  — Josué J. López, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Dec. 2020
• The eggnog is made to order at the bar, shaken and strained into a coupe glass with a healthy grating of nutmeg on top.
  — al, 12 Dec. 2019
• Others pulled up iron gratings and barricaded the middle of the road with them.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Toss them with lemon, oil and a grating of Parm to make each crunchy bite super satisfying.
  — Tina Martinez, Good Housekeeping, 17 Apr. 2023
• Top each glass with a dash of nutmeg for flavor and a grating of orange peel for color, and you're finished.
  — Lauren Phillips, Southern Living, 29 June 2020
• The sisters, who remained unseen, would sing behind a metal grating in the choir room next to the chapel.
  — Kaya Laterman, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2023
• The windows of the building on the first few floors are fortified with wide deep lintels and thick mesh iron grating.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• This is one of a couple of short flashbacks in this episode, which though not intrusive, are a little grating.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
• An orange peel and grating of nutmeg bring home the holiday vibe, which makes for a great pairing with the crunchy starters.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• Standing tall at the top, the ape intoned his grating, mechanical laugh.
  — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2019
• Once the chocolate melts, drizzle with your best olive oil, shower with a grating of orange zest and sprinkle with flaky sea salt.
  — Aleksandra Crapanzano, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
• Remove from the heat and serve, with a grating of black pepper and sprinkle of vegan parmesan.
  — Jim Webster, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
• These gratings would act as super prisms to redirect the starlight that hits them onto smaller curved mirrors.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• On top of a microchip, the researchers etch two gratings of metal stripes just micrometers apart.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
• At least the grating sounds serve as a reminder of how annoying April Fools Jokes can be.
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• His voice had a grating quality, like sandpaper, but Katie didn’t seem to notice.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Until sound effects, tones, and grating atmospheres rub right up against the dialogue.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
• Their woodshed had been shielded with metal screen panels to keep out embers, and their doormats were made of metal grating.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2022
• Using a food processor fitted with coarse grating attachment, or the large holes of a box grater, grate the potatoes.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2020
• Some food processors have high/low speeds, which is good for control, but a pulse button is even better for quick and light chopping or grating.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
• What with all the peeling, the grating, bandaging the cuts and cursing the darkness, there’s a job for everyone.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 7 May 2020
• Against police directives, people parked on the bridge drove over it slowly to get a look down through the grating, jamming up traffic for miles.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 2 Feb. 2018

grating

2 of 2 adjective

• Imagine the most grating podcast advert in the world.
  — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 30 Apr. 2026
• But often the most grating road-blocker at work is the one who is on your team — and presumably on your side.
  — Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• Anything that was grating, cloying, or that took any amount of patience to appreciate was not for me (this year, at least).
  — Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2025
• In its loud, grating first scenes, Club Kid deliberately tries patience.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
• An intense plunge into the pitch-black humor and grating anxiety of being a mother to a young, sick child without adequate support.
  — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
• The warehouse handles millions of wheels a year, moving them in and out for dairies, processors, exporters and companies that buy wheels for grating or long aging.
  — Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 2 May 2026
• His behavior was so grating that even host Rece Davis, the normally stoic straightman, got into a shouting match with Kiper.
  — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026
• As an experienced home chef myself, these 10 picks under $30 have saved me hours chopping vegetables, struggling with pesky jars, and grating cheese.
  — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
• As an experienced home chef myself, these 10 picks under $35 have saved me hours chopping vegetables, struggling with pesky jars, and grating cheese.
  — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
• The scale of that tragedy may be what makes Harris’s complaints seem so petty, however well founded many of them may be, and her deflection of responsibility so grating.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2025