How to Use grave in a Sentence

grave

1 of 2 noun

• Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves.
  — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• The grave was found less than three weeks ago, police said.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
• The trip began at the site of a mass grave of Ukrainian civilians killed in the town of Bucha.
  — Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 16 June 2023
• Who is most likely to take all their secrets to the grave?
  — Emily Becker, Women's Health, 24 May 2023
• This seems to me like my parents trying to rule us from the grave.
  — Ilyce Glink and Samuel Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
• All told, the researchers say the site could hold dozens—or even hundreds—of graves.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
• To be locked in a world with one foot in a rainbow of flowers and the other in a grave?
  — Diane Bell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
• The body will be placed in a glass shrine, with visitors able to take dirt from her grave.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 29 May 2023
• The Nelsons buried Stefano in a shallow grave the next day, but that was the least of their concerns.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
• The news of unmarked graves in Canada also spurred the U.S. to action.
  — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
• Even after her husband died in an airstrike near his shop and was buried in a mass grave.
  — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• The next day, the dog was discovered trying to dig up the dirt on his beloved master’s grave.
  — Julie Flavell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• These crowns were either placed in the grave or, later on, in churches.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2024
• Bodies washed ashore after the flood, with many victims buried in mass graves.
  — Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
• Youth and elders argued about where to position the grave, aunties and nieces joked around in the kitchen.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• Their bodies were interred in a mass grave somewhere in the East Bottoms.
  — Patrick C. Salland, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• Now, her fiancé visits her grave every day to talk to her.
  — Raja Abdulrahim Samar Abu Elouf, New York Times, 31 May 2023
• All of those relatives, just a day later, would soon be placed in their own graves a few dozen yards away.
  — Maria Varenikova David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• Posts with numbers are all that mark the graves of people buried in Hinds County's pauper's field.
  — Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2023
• Amid the graves, lime green grasses grew and young trees were in bloom, the florets white, burgundy, pale yellow, backlit by the sun.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• To their dismay, the four find the grave at a shady location in a remote village in Korea.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• She was not embalmed, and her grave was dug by hand by her sisters, said the website of the monastic order.
  — Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 27 May 2023
• Normally biopics that are from cradle to the grave are sort of a terrible idea.
  — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2024
• Over and over again, the world proclaims the death of libraries; over and over again, libraries respond by ascending from the grave.
  — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 19 Sep. 2023
• The couple spent the morning visiting their son’s grave.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2023
• The backhoe shuddered to a stop, and two workers from the funeral home jumped into the grave with shovels to dig out the rest of the earth by hand.
  — Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
• For decades, Ware’s remains lay in an unmarked grave in a forest on the side of an Alabama road.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2023
• In Brittany, libations of milk were poured over graves.
  — Mira Ptacin, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
• In Gaza, thousands of families have not been able to hold funerals either; instead, many are placed in mass graves.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
• The agent got another tip: Saenz visited Fernandez’s grave on the anniversary of her death.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024

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grave

2 of 2 adjective

• I have grave doubts about this plan.
• They have placed themselves in grave danger.
• The French word père is written with a grave accent over the first e.
• The judge issued his ruling with a grave expression.
• This violation of school rules is a grave matter.
• His carelessness could have grave consequences.
• These kinds of grave goods were buried with the dead in the hopes that they could be used in the afterlife.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• When Tai draws a card after Van and Lottie's prodding, her face shifts to a very grave and stony—and familiar!—expression.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
• Climate change has emerged as one of the gravest concerns facing mankind.
  — Ajay Khari, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Dakota Hill was sitting at home when his dad walked in with grave news.
  — Karthik Krishnamurthy, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
• The man was seen on the helicopter’s thermal imaging camera clinging to the grave rock face of the cliff.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 2 Apr. 2024
• But also, the reality is that not everybody has the time and the resources to do that, and that’s the grave truth.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 12 Apr. 2024
• The gravest risk for Ukrainian forces is that they would be encircled, trapped, and killed in large numbers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Mar. 2023
• As the mourners slowly thinned, the dead fighter’s older brother emerged from the grave site.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• Those who try to dismiss the risk of a second Trump term do our country a grave disservice.
  — Liz Cheney, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• The two types of coffee that most of us drink — Arabica and robusta — are at grave risk in the era of climate change.
  — Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Millions of children face grave risks to their health, safety and well-being.
  — Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Worse yet, the trails that people use to return to their spirit homes after death are in grave danger.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
• The project began in the fourth quarter of 2020 and includes the beautification and short-term upkeep of the grave sites, the group stated.
  — Jamarean Heard, al, 19 Sep. 2023
• The grave mistake has since prompted an outpouring of anger and grief from Israelis.
  — Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• And also these images of mass grave sites to show just the staggering number of people that would be killed.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2023
• In a video statement, the Israeli military called the attack a grave mistake.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• That work now paused after the attack that Israel admits was a grave mistake.
  — ABC News, 7 Apr. 2024
• These are films about the grave comedy of being alive, and about submitting to the seasons by which a life is meted out.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• But Lowery invests the whole of it with a mood both grave and warm, with serious dramatic stakes.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2023
• The grave relief of Krito and her dead mother, Timarista, display these values.
  — Jeanine Barone, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
• The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within.
  — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2023
• The patient was in grave condition, but to Mialkovskyi’s relief, still alive.
  — Eve Sampson, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• The only traces of humanity are a nearby boys’ school and the Natives who use the location as a grave site.
  — Vulture, 25 July 2023
• Had that happened, the flooding may have overwhelmed defenses along the river and caused a much more grave crisis.
  — David Faris, The Week, 3 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024