Sentence examples for grate upon from inspiring English sources
The novel's overtly religious appeal to the reader, sometimes cringe-inducing portrayal of blacks, and unabashed sentimentality may grate upon modern sensibilities.
As for his best-known American females, only a few, such as Isabel Archer and Caroline Spencer, do not grate upon the ear.
And no matter how much it may grate upon the president, Congress — and legislators in California, Florida, Texas and New York — should pass laws ensuring transparency in high-end real estate purchases.
Pigs crammed so tightly together, their fecal waste falls through metal grates upon which they stand throughout the day and night; chickens housed together in a sea of other chickens, warehoused together under one roof, their bodies caked with feces.
What he or she may not know is that a gridiron is an early name for the iron grate with parallel bars upon which meat is cooked over coals, hence the origin of the name.
"Reverie," the most 3-D piece, is built upon an iron grate with a tombstonelike shape.
Kate's quarry and the novel's main narrator is Jeanie Taylor, a mousey, put-upon creature whose nervy witterings soon begin to grate.
A moveable iron grate rested about two feet from the lid, and the man's body rested upon the grate.
