Grating has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Something is grating on her nerves. | |
| 2. | A cacophony is a mixture of grating noises. | |
| 3. | That music is grating on my nerves. | |
| 4. | Next morning, he could see through the iron grating in front of his little window how the people were hurrying out of the town to see him hanged. | |
| 5. | Here, by the goddess and her gifts renowned, / Sidonian Dido built a stately shrine. / All brazen rose the threshold; brass was round / the door-posts; brazen doors on grating hinges sound. | |
| 6. | "There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse." | |
| 7. | In the window opening he set small branches about an inch in diameter both vertically and horizontally, and so woven that they formed a substantial grating that could withstand the strength of a powerful animal. |