Grating in a sentence as a noun

Not to pick on you, but this meme is so grating to read over and over.

His methods are quirky, and his language grating.

So, you want to invest in the proper grating system upstream.

I don't know why exactly, but it's really grating me that people have been replying to them.

I agree with you, and there is a specific type of pedantry I find especially grating.

It's personally grating to me that they take such a boneheaded tack to content in the 21st century.

There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast/cable television unbearably grating.

Grating in a sentence as an adjective

It's the same reason visiting a highly population dense foreign land where people live by their own customs will begin grating on you quickly.

Maybe it's because I recognize that the "draining" and "grating" experience of using "piece of ****" stuff is, in many cases, entirely relative.

I can only imagine how grating this post must be to those people still in his employ who had developed any sort of relationship with those let go. Or those still employed who worry, every day, if he isn't looking at them with disdain as they walk in the door.

I think of myself as someone who isn't bothered at all by swearing, but I have a housemate who literally swears in every other sentence and it is the most grating thing to me.

Even if my gut feeling is wrong, it still creates grating uncertainly: Is this person a troll who's out to undermine my credibility on the cheap, or is it a genuinely interested person who just want to learn more.

What about clang?The point isn't that GNU programs aren't useful -- it's just that the claim that GNU is so important it should be included as a mandatory prefix any time anyone mentions "Linux" in a context that is not kernel exclusive is grating and silly.

The language may have been grating, but as someone who also comes from more of a scientific computing background, I read this as "I want a language to be a tool that I can use to solve scientific and engineering problems with minimal conceptual overhead due to minding language features.

Grating definitions

noun

a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air

See also: grate

noun

a frame of iron bars to hold a fire

See also: grate

noun

optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum

adjective

unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice"

See also: gravelly rasping raspy rough scratchy