Sentence examples for grating from inspiring English sources

It was an effective tactic early on but risked grating with viewers.

Every inch of the long, dim store is rammed with items for cooking – baking, broiling, shaping, slicing, weighing, grating, processing – plus several I'd have trouble putting a use to.

Mr Valls's insistence that France's fiscal decisions are a matter for it alone is especially grating.

He is especially candid about the "grating personality traits that often accompany success in the market"—though his own persona is that of an engaging absent-minded professor.

The instability of not knowing what's to come is grating at all that beautiful self-confidence and ambition I exuded when I was in the midst of my lovely MBA.

For is it not grating that the intellectual attainments necessary to design and hurl a satellite into geosynchronous orbit should in the end turn out to have been deployed to no greater humanitarian or cultural end than the broadcasting of a channel called WOWOW TV at a target audience of Japanese schoolchildren?

Mr Ford's frequent pronouncements of epistemological wonder grow grating and almost cheap, a pose of mystification that seems donned rather than earned.

As Bob Worcester, boss of the polling firm MORI, puts it, "When Hague was chosen over Ken Clarke, the Tories did themselves in".Focus groups hate the Tory leader's "flat, grating" Yorkshire voice and his "wally-like" appearance.

But Mrs Clinton also seems to have a gift for grating with her natural supporters.Some successful female professionals resent the way that she has risen on her husband's coat-tails whilst presenting herself as a career woman.

Some of the raps are indeed angry and misogynistic, so grating that you have to close the book for a while.

An unnecessary and miscast voice-over pops up to deliver clichés ("And just when you think things can't possible get any worse... ......) in a voice as grating as a carnival barker's.