Example Sentences

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Year after weary year, seeing no one, never going anywhere, they have rasped and worn each other merely by being what they are.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

A half-hour spent so would have rasped the nerves of the most phlegmatic man in the town, and Jack was not phlegmatic; fifteen minutes of watching that silent weeping sufficed to bring a muffled explosion.

From The Gringos by Fischer, Anton Otto

Were those innocent men to blame if he happened to have rasped nerves?

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold