Sentence for grave | Use grave in a sentence

Sentences using the word grave. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use grave in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for grave.

• She looked grave. (9)
• Antonia looked grave. (8)
• Harriet looked grave. (4)
• Catherine looked grave. (4)
• His look was rather grave. (10)
• A walk will take us to her grave. (10)
• Mrs. Durgin looked a little grave. (9)
• Let me stipulate, be not very grave. (10)
• Richard inquired, with a grave face. (10)
• Ottilia and I exchanged a grave look. (10)
• His grave liquid eyes were unalterable. (10)
• He was particularly grave the whole morning. (4)
• If I am not crying over his grave, Everard? (10)
• Why did she draw back and look so grave at me? (4)
• I ran to the church yard and looked for her grave. (12)
• The judge punctuated this opinion with a grave nod. (13)
• It had been grave, but was now heavy and threatening. (8)
• The sources of the tale, O ye grave Signori Tedeschi? (10)
• Feet will be walking over ones grave, wherever it lies. (10)
• He bore to his grave that jagged scratch across the eye. (8)
• They were, then, unplighted if now the grave divided them! (10)
• This taught him that the occasion was as grave as could be. (10)
• And the night was so dark and windy; the grave so cold and lonely! (8)
• The body might have been tossed into its grave, for aught I knew. (10)
• Many of the people from the house had accompanied it to the grave. (12)
• Madam is grave, and eyes the clock that tells Approaching midnight. (10)
• I was drowned in internal laughter long after I had got a grave face. (10)
• Chillon arrived from England to see the common grave of both his parents. (10)
• From marks about the throat grave suspicions of foul play are entertained. (8)
• He rarely spoke of the princess; with grave affection always when he did. (10)
• Her eyes were like the grave that is wide For the corpse from head to heel. (10)
• They looked for me all night and found me by the grave and dragged me home. (12)
• But not one of these grave reflections troubled the tranquillity of Catherine. (4)
• Her family might pass the grave of Chloe without weeping, without moralizing. (10)
• He saw that it neither rhymed nor scanned, and with a grave face he tore it up. (8)
• The group all laughed, even Miss Cotton, but she was the first to become grave. (9)
• From the first Kuni had believed that she knew who was being borne to the grave. (5)
• When I was thirteen years younger I was loved, and my dearest sank to the grave. (10)
• And an uneasy sleep was traditionally a matter for grave debate in the Radnor family. (10)
• Grave suspicions of arson are entertained, but up to the present no arrest has been made. (8)
• In the orchard Tod sat with a grave and puzzled face, surrounded by the three little Trysts. (8)
• The light smote her yellow hair, and struck out her grave and offended look, as in a picture. (22)
• He bowed therefore over her hand in an intoxicated manner, and became more silent than the grave. (8)
• The judge witnessed it all with a grave displeasure, more and more painfully apparent to his wife. (9)
• Thicker crowd the shades as the grave East deepens Glowing, and with crimson a long cloud swells. (10)
• Frank Morris, the orator of the circus, accompanied us and I had him make an address at the grave. (21)
• As heaven preserve her, says slip, the smell in that room grew like an open grave, clammily putrid. (10)
• Do you remember how we used to shudder together at night when we thought of people lying in the grave? (10)
• Do you remember how we used to shudder together at night when we thought of people lying in the grave? (22)
• He dipped his sculls, the ripples started out and swam in grave diminuendo till they touched the banks. (8)
• Her lips were firmly closed, her eyes grave; dry, but seeming to waver tearfully in their heavy fulness. (10)
• Antonia had acquiesced in the condition with a queer, grave pleasure, as if she expected it to do her good. (8)
• He thought that his wife was kneeling upon his grave, adding her weight to that of the earth upon his breast. (1)
• She felt herself midswing across a gulf that was the grave of one half, without a light of promise for the other. (10)
• Over the stone of the nearest grave Jeff had shown a face of triumphant derision when he pelted Westover with apples. (9)
• And this evening he was especially glad to have her to himself, for she had seemed of late rather grave and absent-minded. (8)
• Mrs. Beauchamp said she had seen her great-nephew Nevil, but without a comment on his conduct or his person; grave silence. (10)
• Antonia stood before him with her hands against her sides; her figure was so slim and young, her face uncertain and so grave. (8)
• The more that is expected of him, the closer must be the expression of his friends, or a grave fiasco may have to be deplored. (8)
• The ladies caressed her, with grave looks; but neither of them showed a perturbation of spirit like that which distressed Adela. (10)
• She still looked grave, having in mind a precept that young married people, barring sickness, should save a fifth of their income. (13)
• Some very exalted and aristocratic person must be taking the journey to the grave, for it was headed by all the clergy in the city. (5)
• His face, as he gazed down at his cousin, held new, grave lines, which gave it a sort of manliness that it had not possessed before. (13)
• He had been among the first in the rush to Hurdy-Gurdy, but had not prospered, and had sunk by degrees to the position of grave digger. (1)
• Emilia fell back a step, eyeing him with a grave expression of wonder, as if she beheld another being from the one she had hitherto known. (10)
• He breathed regularly, and did not seem in pain; but there was about him that which told he was going; something resigned, already of the grave. (8)
• To tread her down in her live grave beneath Their dancing floor sunned blind by the Royal wreath, They ringed her steps with crafty prison pits. (10)
• But more, the birds of air, nay, grave owls (who stand in this metaphor for whiskered experience) thronged, dashing at the apparition of terrible splendour. (22)
• The governing people, which is looked to for direction in grave dilemmas by its representatives and reflectors, shouted that it had been accused of pusillanimity. (10)

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