Sample Sentences for
grave
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(editor-reviewed)

grave as in:  Her manner was grave.

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    The corners of his mouth tug down, and he gives me a grave look.  (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
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    Mama was grave. Her plump figure glowed with worry.  (source)
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    Papers in his hand, a grave look on his face.  (source)
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    Dr. Cruz smiled and shook the little girl's hand gravely.  (source)
    gravely = in a serious and solemn manner
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    But they greeted me with grave courtesy, murmuring what they had to offer as we shook hands.  (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
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    Any girl found practicing levitation will face the gravest consequences.†  (source)
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    But the pilot, to his credit, appreciated the gravity of my predicament and didn't give up.  (source)
    gravity = importance (weightiness)
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    Nick had a graveness that was European in a way.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Little Man's frown deepened and he observed gravely, "If they did, we'd never get clean again."  (source)
    gravely = with seriousness
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    Now the humming of the wheel barely slackened as she raised her eyes for one grave cool look.  (source)
    grave = serious and solemn
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    U.S. intelligence, military leadership, and ultimately Commander in Chief and President George W. Bush deemed Iraq—more specifically, Iraqi president Saddam Hussein—the gravest threat to national security.†  (source)
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    There was a gravity in his manner and a quiet so profound that all talk stopped when he spoke. His authority was so great that his word was taken on any subject, be it politics or love.  (source)
    gravity = seriousness and importance (weightiness)
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    A graveness, a spirit of old secrets gone bad, turned unworthy.†  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    Unless Sam Westing is out to get somebody from his grave.  (source)
    grave = burial spot
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    He felt like he was digging his own grave.  (source)
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    "Oh nothing, nothing," she said, "somebody just walked over my grave."  (source)
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    Then I realized it must be Kira Morrow's grave.  (source)
    grave = burial spot
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    When the other girls crouched to slap the stage, I tilted; when we were to cartwheel, I swayed, refusing to allow gravity to do its work, to draw the sweatshirt any higher up my legs.  (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
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    It was easy to find his grave: It was the newest.  (source)
    grave = burial spot
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    …his whole body hanging between river and sky as though he had transcended gravity and might by gently pushing upward with his foot glide a little way higher and remain suspended in space, encompassing all the glory of the summer and offering it to the sky.  (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
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    Witnesses included a priest and two shivering grave diggers.  (source)
    grave = burial spot
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    Just a few steps and a leap, and gravity would do the rest.  (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
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    I guess I can go to my grave now, because I've seen it all.  (source)
    grave = time of being buried
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    Day after day, in zero gravity, there are mock battles.  (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
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    Whoever it was, he must've been one of the first to die, because his grave looked the oldest.  (source)
    grave = burial spot
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    The second wave, as it tore toward the beach with me, spewed me a little ahead of it, encroaching rapidly; suddenly it was immeasurably bigger than I was, it rushed me from the control of gravity and took control of me itself; the wave threw me down in a primitive plunge without a bottom, then there was a bottom, grinding sand, and I skidded onto the shore.  (source)
    gravity = the force that makes things fall
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