'grave' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'grave' with 16 example sentences.
- grave adjective
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: dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought
- grave noun
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: death of a person
: a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
: a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- grave verb
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: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it
: carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
Muslims bury their dead in graves.
He is digging his own grave.
Today I'm going to visit my grandfather's grave.
We are in grave danger.
She took her secrets to the grave.
I feel like someone just walked over my grave.
He made a grave mistake.
I was a grave digger for thirty years.
The boy dug a grave for his dead pet.
I'll carry that to my grave.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I spit on your mother's grave!
Hope is the walking stick, from the cradle to the grave.
A heavy stone slab was lowered over the grave.
They buried him in his grave.
Even the walking-dead eventually return to the grave.