| 1. | A charred mass in the grate indicated that Mrs. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | Or a dry wheel grate on the axletree. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | So the discovery of the charred fragment in the grate was no surprise to me. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 4. | See here." He took out the charred fragment we had found in the grate in Mrs. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 5. | Wont, through a secret grate of iron bar. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on yo. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Felix visited the grate at night and made known to the prisoner his intentions in his favour. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 8. | ZOE _Fanning herself with the grate fan_ I'm meltin. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 9. | In the grate is spread a screen of peacock feathers. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 10. | A bolt grated and Danglars was a prisoner. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 11. | The old gentleman looked almost as rueful as Oliver when the key grated in the lock. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 12. | The glazed and grated door fell to behind him. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 13. | He was standing with her in the cold, looking in through a grated window at a man making bottles in a roaring furnace. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 14. | I experienced a strange feeling as the key grated in the lock, and the sound of his retreating step ceased to be heard. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 15. | He turned at the grated door, to render the thanks of his heart it closed under the gaoler's hand and the apparitions vanished from his sight forever. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 16. | A bit of tape attached to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 17. | I have seen her image in the moonlight often, as I now see you except that I never held her in my arms it stood between the little grated window and the door. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 18. | The last word grated on me but how could I remonstrate I walked no further than the gate of the gardens, and then pretended to be weaker than I was, and asked Joe for his arm. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |