Sentence examples for must grate especially from inspiring English sources

Gregg's relentless bonhomie must grate, especially when tricksy chefs are trying out phenomenally difficult things like not smacking him in the mouth.

These are tiny gripes, but they do occasionally grate, especially when the slick Sky marketing people overshoot.

Not a wheel must grate, not a light glimmer.

The authentic shredded cheese, which is a fluorescent yellow, travels poorly, so Edward's must grate its own.

He's a bottler, he never does it in finals, he doesn't really care … the accusations must grate.

Closer to home on the range, Bush's homely idioms must grate on our own paramount leader.

His cover of Blackstreet's "No Diggity" is the ultimate crowd pleaser, which must grate a little, but he follows this up with his own slick electronica.

It must grate that, while Oracle and Salesforce.com compete in business software applications, Oracle can (and does) taunt Salesforce with the fact that its applications also rely on Oracle databases for their core functions.

Indeed, even if the governor was mild-mannered on Thursday, it must grate on him that Sanders has taken off with his scalding invocation about corruption in politics, since that was more or less Brown's entire 1992 presidential campaign.

But Wang's contemptuous tone grated, especially when he attacked the literature professor turned human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo.

What grates especially is that in the eyes of some acquaintances, Mr. Ahmed is no longer simply her husband but her Arab husband.