How to use "grate" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "grate" in popular movie and book plots

  • Karl gets inside the crawlspace and begins crawling after Lori, and eventually speeds after her with a wheeled grate kept in the crawlspace.  - Crawlspace (1986 film)
  • The grate of the vent slams down on her neck, killing her.  - The Unseen (1980 film)
  • Meanwhile, in another part of the building, Henry falls through a grate and practically lands in L'Amanda's lustful arms.  - I See Me, I.C.U.
  • Consequently, they both fall backwards through a grate and into the Prisons fuel tunnels.  - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (comics)
  • Tom opens the floor grate to trap the bear and breaks Jerry's ukulele.  - Down Beat Bear
  • Muff grabs Jerry's tail and throws him onto a grate as the drawer flattens him, turning Jerry into a waffle.  - Triplet Trouble
  • Sonny now rolls down the bodega grate in front of Usnavi, revealing the memorial.  - In the Heights
  • After being knocked out from behind, the black oil leaves the captain's body and exits via a grate into the sea.  - Apocrypha (The X-Files)
  • Using a packet of dairy creamer he took from security, Ho enters the finance company and finds the grate that Cheung's screw comes from.  - Running Out of Time (1999 film)
  • Mulder heads in and saves him, apparently killing the flukeman by closing a sewer grate on it, slicing it in half.  - The Host (The X-Files)
  • When Gregor's baby sister Boots falls through an old air duct grate in the building's basement, he dives in after her.  - Gregor the Overlander
  • Scared of feeling any more pain due to another whisker being plucked, Tom barricades the grate and flees.  - Pecos Pest
  • The fireplace grate was full of smoked cigarettes, yet the air was fresh.  - Poirot's Early Cases
  • Nurse Greenleigh tries to put an end to the situation, but Marin forces her into an open grate that drops into the sewers.  - Go Fish (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • One of the mice, Albert Brown, is pulled through a grate into the sewers by the dark enchantments that Jupiter has woven there.  - The Dark Portal
  • Cash triumphs after luring Piggsy onto a grate that collapses under his weight.  - Manhunt (video game)

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