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'grave' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'grave' with 16 example sentences.


grave adjective

: 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

: 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

: 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.
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