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Unbroken, by Hillenbrand

On the night before the race, a coach from Notre Dame knocked on Louie's hotel room door, a grave expression on his face.
p. 41.4 *

grave = serious and/or solemn

The Japanese base had been gravely damaged—by one estimate, half of its personnel had been killed—and America had demonstrated the reach and power of its B-24s.
p. 76.7

gravely = seriously

The plane was gravely wounded, trying to fly up and over onto its back.
p. 96.7

The Omori POW doctor examined Harris gravely.
p. 272.3

gravely = in a serious and solemn manner

On August 15, Louie woke gravely ill.
p. 303.2

gravely = seriously

Mutsuhiro, his face grave, questioned her about the police's tactics.
p. 369.3

grave = serious and solemn

CBS's Japanese bureau chief called the number and reached Watanabe's wife, who said that her husband couldn't speak to them—he was gravely ill and bedridden.
p. 395.2

gravely = seriously

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Brooks was lying in a grave in Funafuti's Marine Corps cemetery.
p. 112.1

grave = burial spot

To try to stop it from flipping, Louie and Phil bailed in water as ballast, positioned themselves on opposite sides to balance their weight, and lay on their backs to keep the center of gravity low.
p. 170.3 *

gravity = the force that makes things fall

And when you stand before God on the great judgment day, you're going to say, 'Lord I wasn't such a bad fellow,' and they are going to pull down the screen and they are going to shoot the moving picture of your life from the cradle to the grave, and you are going to hear every thought that was going through your mind every minute of the day, every second of the minute, and you're going to hear the words that you said.
p. 373.3

grave = burial

Definitions:

(1) (grave as in: Her manner was grave.)
serious and/or solemn
The exact meaning of this sense of grave can depend upon its context. For example:
- "This is a grave problem," or "a situation of the utmost gravity." -- important, dangerous, or causing worry
- "She was in a grave mood upon returning from the funeral." -- sad or solemn
- "She looked me in the eye and gravely promised." -- in a sincere and serious manner
(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus)
meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:

Better known meanings of grave and gravity:
- grave -- a place where a dead body is buried
- gravity -- in the sense of physics to refer to the force of attraction between all masses in the universe--especially the force that causes things to fall toward the earth
Less common meanings of grave:
- death -- as in "A message from beyond the grave."
- describing a color as dark
- to sculpt with a chisel
- to clean and coat the bottom of a wooden ship with pitch
- grave accent -- a punctuation mark (`) that is used in some non-English languages, and that is placed over some letters of the alphabet to tell how they are pronounced.
- grave musical direction -- in a slow and solemn manner