Want to use Grave correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like serious or important.

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Grave in a sentence

Grave | Graves | Gravel | Graveyard | Graveside | Gravely | Gravesend | Gravestone | Gravesite

Grave meaning

  1. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
  2. Any place of interment.
  3. Any place containing one or more corpses.

Synonyms of Grave

serious grievous carve of import important weighty heavy critical life-threatening severe dangerous solemn sober sedate death

Example sentences (20)

A kindergarten teacher was discovered dead in a shallow grave in an industrial area after failing to appear in school.

Icon of the Resurrection depicting Christ having destroyed the gates of hell and removing Adam and Eve from the grave.

A statement of opinion signed by 20 MSs "expressed grave concern at the continuing tragedy in Israel and Gaza".

He said police immediately apprehended the suspect after burial and the grave was marked for exhumation and postmortem.

Adamawa few weeks ago was more of having a grave yard peace with everyone frustrated on what befell the state.

His military grave is in Kitchener, Ont., which is where a special remembrance service will be held on Sunday.

He said: “The Clouded Leopard is a fantastic and elusive animal rarely seen in the wild, and in grave danger of extinction.

Gustin recreated the meme of him next to Oliver Queen's grave, posing with a fan at a photo opportunity during a convention.

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Grave of the Fireflies is Studio Ghibli's third film and the first directed by one of the studio's developers, Isao Takahata.

A mum has spoken of her heartbreak after decorations placed on the grave of her young daughter have vanished for a third time.

Despite the grave financial and debt conditions, politicians in power in these states seem unconcerned.

He loved 'working the land', attending mass and visiting his late wife's grave but these are all things he is now unable to do.

I called the director of that cemetery and asked: Is Josef Hamerman buried there in an unmarked grave?

However, when protecting the prince from his former men, he suffered a grave injury that not even the finest medicine could amend.

Alastair notes one grave in which the engraver has missed out the letter ‘E’ in the word ‘Erected’!

A third world war might dig the grave not only of our communist opponents but also of our own society, our world as well as theirs.

Bucha, outside Kyiv, is the site of a mass grave that was filled with the bodies of civilians murdered by occupying Russian troops.

Habschied was also found in a shallow grave with multiple stab wounds as well as being decapitated.

Both Mash and Saitama share a peculiar trait of being mostly stoic and unemotional, not caring much about grave threats and dangers.

Despite all of this, he was only convicted of two murders and suspected of a lot of grave robbing.

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Common combinations with grave

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "grave" in a sentence?
An example: "A kindergarten teacher was discovered dead in a shallow grave in an industrial area after failing to appear in school." This page contains 20 example sentences with the word "grave" from real English texts.
What does "grave" mean?
Grave means: An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.
What are synonyms of "grave"?
Common synonyms of "grave" include: serious, grievous, carve, of import, important, weighty, heavy, critical. Plus 7 more synonyms.
How many example sentences with "grave" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 20 example sentences with "grave", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.

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