grave

[ɡreɪv]

Definition:
1. A place in the ground where a dead person is buried.
2. Death; a person's death.
3. Very serious and important; giving you a reason to feel worried.

Use 'grave' in a sentence:

1. We had to tip up the bed and the model was in grave danger of falling off it!
2. He will get nothing but a grave!
3. Some people proposed building multi-storey underground grave yards.
4. Were you anywhere near Horse Williams' grave?
5. The countryman began to look grave, and shook his head.
6. He was buried in an unmarked grave.
7. There might be something beyond the grave, you know, and not nothingness.
8. Mary listened to her with a grave, puzzled expression.
9. Her face was so grave, I wondered for a moment if she'd found me out.
10. He said that the situation in his country is very grave.
11. It is arguable that this was not as grave a handicap as it might appear.
12. They used to visit her grave twice a year.
13. Her grave is by the sounding sea.
14. There were flowers on the grave.
15. Anxiously, she examined his unusually grave face.
16. I had grave misgivings about making the trip.
17. His grave has become a place of pilgrimage.
18. Two reporters had to help lower the coffin into the grave.
19. Your father marked the grave every time he came.
20. He looked very grave as he entered the room.
21. They cast down their load and began to open the grave.
22. I have grave doubts that the documents tell the whole story.
23. His grave is marked by a fine stela.
24. He knew he had committed a grave error of judgment.
25. "Yes," said the boy; and added, to himself, "within his grave."
26. William was up on the roof for some time and when he came down he looked grave.
27. Most men would rather go to the grave than own up to feelings of dependency.
28. He might burn himself out and go to an early grave.
29. The consequences will be very grave if nothing is done.
30. The country's economy is now in grave peril.
31. Is there life beyond the grave?
32. They stood in silent homage around the grave.
33. A series of arrows points the way to the modest grave of Andrei Sakharov.
34. She was rescued from a watery grave.
35. The country was passing through a grave crisis.
36. My father would turn in his grave if he knew.
37. These words are carved on the stone beside his grave.
38. He did die a pauper and is buried in an unmarked grave.
39. There is grave concern for the safety of witnesses.
40. He expressed grave concern at American attitudes.
41. Relatives laid wreaths on the grave.
42. He was looking correctly grave.
43. It seemed to him that western civilization was in grave economic and cultural danger.
44. Universities are facing grave problems because of diminishing resources.
45. The bond of brotherhood was one to last from the cradle to the grave.
46. She tore the rose apart and scattered the petals over the grave.