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Example sentences for "grated"

Lexicographically close words:
grasslike; grassy; grat; grata; grate; grateful; gratefull; gratefully; gratefulness; grater
  1. She had just finished cutting the bread and butter when the latchkey of the Honourable John Ruffin grated in the keyhole.

  2. He laughed, a harsh, cruel laugh which grated upon her ear.

  3. Sir Marmaduke's cruel laugh had grated horribly on her ear, rousing an echo in her memory which she could not understand but which caused her to encircle the trembling figure of the old Quakeress with young, protecting arms.

  4. He seems the only moneyed man amongst you all," she added with a laugh, which grated most unpleasantly on Richard's ear.

  5. His ironical laugh grated on her nerves, as he replied lightly: "Pshaw!

  6. She crossed her arms upon her bosom, with a violent pressure, as if to bind the agony; her teeth grated against each other; and every limb shuddered.

  7. The first dawnings of morn burst imperfectly through the high and grated casements; and I heard the creaking door of the armoury begin to open; I darted through my pannel, but the pannel shut heavily and with noise.

  8. God, I'd sooner see you in your grave than here," he grated out.

  9. Rotten place, believe me, but it's the best I can get for a dollar a day," grated George.

  10. Not a face appeared at one of all the long row of grated windows.

  11. No sound came from the yashiki; no face peered from the grated windows.

  12. The vagrant stood at length before a grated iron gate while its bolts were thrown back and it growled on its hinges.

  13. But the more the exterior belongings of her Ideal grated on her now, the more she hugged to her heart his soul and spirit, as expressed in the old blue manuscript.

  14. When they reached the familiar iron-grated door at last, to their surprise both wings of it were thrown open.

  15. As soon as she neared the grated iron door it opened wide, and holding his hat in his hand, Mr. Trius stood deeply bowing in the opening.

  16. Then quickly setting out, they did not stop till they had reached the iron-grated door.

  17. Not until the craft grated gently against one of the floats at Ottman's did Sara seem to note the girls' approach.

  18. Penny broke out the oars, and maneuvered the dinghy until it grated against the hull of the barge.

  19. Up flew the latch and tirling-pin, Wide swung the grated door, Then came a solemn stately tread Upon the quaking floor!

  20. Having little else to do, he was prompted by curiosity to approach the building, from whence the loud din of mirth and revelry grated harshly on his ears.

  21. The gentleman hadn't said anything or done anything that was out of the way, but there was a benignant loftiness about him which grated on the inmost fibres of my soul.

  22. Toward spring, when it becomes less palatable, the deficiency may be best supplied with a little lemon juice and grated rind, a bit of pineapple or quince, a few drops of almond extract or rose water, or a few whole cloves.

  23. Mix half a cup of sugar and an eighth of a teaspoonful of cinnamon or the grated rind of half a lemon.

  24. To the water add one cup sugar, grated rind one-half lemon, and juice one orange; simmer until reduced to one cup.

  25. Weigh, and to each pound allow one pound of granulated sugar and a half pint of boiling water, the grated rind of one and the juice of two lemons.

  26. Strongly built, and with barred windows and grated doors, to say nothing of the ditch in front and high balconies, it was in keeping with this part of the town, pretty unsafe at this epoch after dark.

  27. The key grated in the lock and the princess beheld with unspeakable apprehension the coming of the Italian beauty.

  28. For once her melodious laugh grated upon his ears.

  29. The tone and accent grated on Matt’s ear.

  30. Matthew Strang winced; Miss Regan’s plain speaking grated upon him, and he saw that Mrs. Wyndwood had lowered her eyes in like annoyance and had commenced to walk homewards.

  31. Besides this, both words and manner grated on Alan's sensibilities disagreeably.

  32. Hope Was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as selfish-hearted men.

  33. She passed her white hands over one another, observant of the sisters now; and the rings upon her fingers grated against each other with a hard sound.

  34. After proceeding a little more than fifty yards he stopped before a mean-looking doorway, flanked by grated windows, and fronted by a lofty wall which I took to be the back of some nobleman's garden.

  35. Grated with iron at either end, and no passage for so much as a dog?


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barred; chalky; crushed; dusty; farinaceous; fine; flaky; grated; ground; impalpable; laced; mealy; meshed; milled; netted; powdered; powdery; pulverized; reticular; scaly; scurfy; shredded; streaked; striped


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    grated bread; grated cheese; grated chocolate; grated cocoanut; grated horseradish; grated lemon; grated nutmeg; grated onion; grated rind