Sentence examples for grate down from inspiring English sources

He was trying to pull the grate down over the shopwindow, but he was having trouble because he was old and fat.

We also did a t-shirt collaboration with Good Company this past summer, and Bukkweat Bill rapped there at the end of a daytime event to a packed house with the front grate down so we didn't get shut down.

Peristaltic movement is simulated by a V-shaped grate, pressed down on the bags, which rocks from side to side, driven by compressed air.

So we were surprised to find the metal grates still down just before 10 a.m.

The street outside was dark, with not a single light to be seen, nothing but the iron grates pulled down tight in front of what surely were the shabbiest, seediest-looking shops in London.

By day, 125th Street is a rock opera of sorts -- throngs of shoppers pick through bargain-price clothing as rap music blares -- but now the storefronts are dark, metal grates pulled down over their windows.

Even here, in rusted grates, down blocks of asphalt, spring had returned.

When he returned, Heersema pried up the sewer grate and climbed down.

Metal grates were pulled down, the aisles were empty and bits of lettuce were strewn on the concrete.

I made ravioli at 10 30 in the morning, grated cheese, sat down with a friend stranded on his way to Midtown, and began to grasp what was happening.

I never got to try the taqueria in Bushwick that had just pulled down its grate when I arrived, or the truck in Corona, Queens, that had run out of tortillas.