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- noun Plural form of
grate .
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Examples
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What really grates is the treatment this women has received in the press.
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The only thing that grates is his attempts to portray them as some sort of righteous indignation.
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(All right, washing the grill grates is another matter, or you can simply blast away the dirt with the preheat mode.)
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They put this lion within grates, bound him in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon, v. 9.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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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.
Archive 2007-07-29 2007
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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.
Time to Get A Grip 2007
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Second Waffl3zz, even though his myspace-style name grates on me like fingernails on a chalkboard.
COMMENTS OF THE WEEK 2008
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That locution grates on the ears of Kenneth Smith of Newark, Delaware.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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That locution grates on the ears of Kenneth Smith of Newark, Delaware.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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That locution grates on the ears of Kenneth Smith of Newark, Delaware.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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