Sentence examples for grate to from inspiring English sources
Air is drawn down through the grate to produce downdraft combustion.
He and a partner were lifting a heavy iron grate to descend into the sewage system, he said.
Nearby is the curb where he chopped coconuts in half, over a sewer grate, to sell as drinking vessels at the Feast of San Gennaro.
It may grate to see one firm get away with something while another is punished, but leniency policies are, probably, a good thing.
On the other hand, Marie still hasn't got the sewer grate to stop the rats digging up into her garden and upending her son's wheelchair.
In 1988, a woman getting out of a taxicab in Brooklyn fell through a grate to the tracks 50 feet below; officials said the grate had been weakened by cars driving over it during road repairs.
Use a safe surface to grate on, to prevent slipping.
That's why it grates to see the tiny boundary.
Grey loves her way with courgettes (grated, to be made into fritters) and her gratin dauphinois.
They prefer taking smaller steps, like raising the height of subway grates to keep water out of the subway tunnels.
He said: "It grates to be portrayed in some quarters as the leader of a far-right group.
