Sentence examples for phrase grates from inspiring English sources

The phrase grates.

Over Iraq, and in the heat of the election, Chancellor Schröder talked of "a German way" in foreign policy -- a phrase that grates on the ears of anyone who recalls the old German Sonderweg, or "special way".

Some women would 'get stuck' on a particular word or phrase, because it amused them or grated on them or was pronounced in a distinct regional accent.

Rachman has a great ear for the kind of verbal tics that really grate on the nerves: in his very first conversation with Winston, Snyder uses the phrase "entres nous" four times within ten lines.

It grates.

Nothing grates.

Grates on the nerves!

Someone who really grates?

"That grates tremendously.

Sorry if that grates.

And the commentary soon grates: Peter Drury and Jim Beglin are hardly a dream team, but you end up feeling a bit sorry for them since PES 2017 has far too small a database of commentary phrases, so repetition soon sets in.