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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121) Those who crave are sure to take disappointments to their grave. RVM
122) The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
123) Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson
124) The rotting grave shall ne'er get out.
125) The national crisis and social crisis were unprecedentedly grave.
126) Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
127) Such interspecies devotion will soon stretch beyond the grave.
128) His grave is marked by a fine stela.
129) With my spade and trowel,(www.Sentencedict.com) I'll dig his grave.
130) You've made Mahan turn over in his grave.
131) Love is a grave mental disease.
132) There was another grave problem to vex him.
133) Jacob buried him on a bluff overlooking the river and faced the grave to the west.
134) I wanted to push on; but the manager looked grave.
135) Topic 2 It is a grave mistake to theorize before one has data.
136) Carefully she clipped the grass the grave and arranged the pinky - white, small chrysanthemums the tin cross.
137) The conduct would make Lincoln roll over in his grave.
138) Her face was passionless[sentencedict.com], like those by sculptor grave for niches in a temple.
139) It is a grave mistake to theorize before one has data.
140) The old man said that he wished to be interred in the family grave.
141) In the world, there are so many geniuses walking into grave unobtrusively every day.
142) Once people's thinking becomes rigid, book worship , divorced from reality, becomes a grave malady.
143) Hollis knew that these people had grave doubts about Top Hat.
144) He bowed therefore over her hand in an intoxicated manner, and became silent than the grave.
145) She had been literally rejuvenated , resuscitated, brought back from the lip of the grave.
146) The rampant spread of bourgeois liberalization may have grave consequences.
147) Across the river in Arlington, thethe Unknown Soldier stands the dim, grave majestic Arlington National Cemetery.
148) Given time enough, however, the balance becomes a sagging to the grave side.
149) Did they say it's shallow as a wading pool, or shallow as an open grave?
150) No one knows what period this mass of unkempt grave mounds belongs to.