Synonym: dignified, earnest, essential, grim, important, imposing, majestic, serious, slow-moving, sober, solemn, somber, stately, thoughtful, vital. Antonym: petty, puny, trifling, trivial. Similar words: gravely, crave, brave, unravel, gravy, depraved, traveler, traveled. Meaning: [greɪv] n. 1. death of a person 2. a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone) 3. a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation. v. 1. shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it 2. carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface. adj. 1. dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises 2. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm 3. of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought.
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91) A series of arrows points the way to the modest grave of Andrei Sakharov.
92) The way Bill plays that piece would have Mozart turning in his grave.
93) The simple inscription on her grave reads: 'She sleeps in peace.
94) I have grave doubts that the documents tell the whole story.
95) The police have expressed grave concern about the missing child's safety.
96) Turnbull's face was grave as he told them about the accident.
97) Every summer a number of boys terminate their youthful career in a watery grave.
97) Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.
98) Even the grave young woman could not suppress a smile.
99) You are just digging your own grave if you go on smoking so heavily.
100) My father would turn in his grave if he knew.
101) The Prime Minister countered by stating that he had grave misgivings about the advice he had been given.
102) This violence will do a grave disservice to their cause.
103) Darwin must be turning in his grave at the thought of what is being perpetrated in his name.
104) She dug her own grave when she made fun of the boss.
105) These words are carved on the stone beside his grave.
106) A mass grave has been discovered in a wood outside the village.
107) Sometimes I think these children are going to drive me to an early grave!
108) He did die a pauper and is buried in an unmarked grave.
109) He buried the bodies in a single grave with a wooden cross as a marker.
110) Her face was so grave, I wondered for a moment if she'd found me out.
111) I'll be in my grave by the time that happens!
112) Two reporters had to help lower the coffin into the grave.
113) The gravedigger filled the grave.
114) Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical. Jonathan Swift
115) Be brave. Don't just live in your cave till your grave. RVM
116) You can live in your cave or dance to your grave. RVM
117) Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Christopher Hitchens
118) Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. Baltasar Gracian
119) Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Kahlil Gibran
120) Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much, or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave — but there's no reason to be in the passing lane. Robert Orben