GRAVE in a Sentence

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For GRAVE, below is one of 236 sentences:
I realize you still cherish the memory of the godlike and wooden- headed Mr. Wilkes, who's probably been in his grave these six months.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRAVE
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grave
 n.  place for the burial; death or extinction
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  "I suppose it was Ruth and Ned," she said in a low voice, as though he had suddenly touched on something grave.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  Abel was a shrewd, grave giant, illiterate, kind of heart, older than the other boys and with as good or better manners in the presence of ladies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  She was a widow and her heart was in the grave.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  At least, everyone thought it was in the grave and expected her to act accordingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  When Dr. Fontaine told Ellen gravely that heartbreak frequently led to a decline and women pined away into the grave, Ellen went white, for that fear was what she had carried in her heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  He picked up her black fan from the counter and began fanning her solicitously, too solicitously, his face grave but his eyes still dancing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Having to pretend that her heart was in the grave when it wasn't.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  I realize you still cherish the memory of the godlike and wooden- headed Mr. Wilkes, who's probably been in his grave these six months.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  She passed the clump of cedars and the low brick wall which marked the family burying ground, trying not to think of the new grave lying by the three short mounds of her little brothers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  The uprights which held the thick vines were rotten and that night Scarlett hacked at them with the kitchen knife until they fell and the tangled mass ran wild over the grave.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  No ghost rose from that shallow grave to haunt her in the long nights when she lay awake, too tired to sleep.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  One time, I seen her point to your ma's grave and the old gentleman begun to cry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  Pork had dug the grave the night before, close by Ellen's grave, and he stood, spade in hand, behind the moist red clay he was soon to shovel back in place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
2  He expressed grave concern at American attitudes.
3  It is arguable that this was not as grave a handicap as it might appear.
4  Life is a battle from cradle to grave.
5  They used to visit her grave twice a year.
6  Digging your grave with your own teeth.
7  A man may dig his grave with his teeth.
8  There might be something beyond the grave, you know, and not nothingness.
9  The report expressed grave concern over the technicians' lack of training.
10  Not returning phone calls is a grave crime in today's culture.
11  His face was grave as he told them about the bankcrutcy of his business.
12  In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.
13  I feel impelled to express grave doubts about the project.
14  One can only hope that his unquiet spirit found some peace in the grave.
15  'The trial cannot proceed,' said the King in a very grave voice, 'until all the jurymen are back in their proper places.'