How To Use Grave In A Sentence

Would reverse flow undergravel filtration be better?
Even the Magdalene herself, eyes turned in horror from the abandoned grave to the radiant glory of the seraphim, had the faint touch of that naiveté in her eyes.
As the firm's engraver, he requires an artistic eye and a considerable amount of strength.
The flowers in bloom upon the graves at the Cemetery were shot away.
At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.

If an infant's condition is not as grave as was thought, he will live, and he can then be given optimal care if he has any handicaps.
Redgrave has made herself over completely for her movie role.
The graves were of different sizes and some were covered with flagstones, some of the urns were sent to Dublin for further examination.
Somebody comes forward, examines, and then draws from out the grave, where it has lain, directly under the body, a knife -- a knife of peculiar shape and workmanship -- a long, keen, _surgeon's knife_! The Diamond Coterie
Carefully she clipped the grass the grave and arranged the pinky - white, small chrysanthemums the tin cross.
Survivors were forced to bury the dead in mass graves. Times, Sunday Times
Nevertheless, CNN has talked to a "language analyst" who gets paid to "[analyze and catalogue] trends in word usage and word choice and their impact on culture," and they report that Obama was too "professorial," and now America is at grave risk of not passing its midterm exams on the oil spill. Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE]
An epitaph is on a gravestone, and while I am sure they would be happy to oblige, that wasn’t what they were actually throwing, I don’t think …. Think Progress » GOP Rep. Nunes Excuses Racist, Homophobic Tea Partier Slurs As A Response To ‘Totalitarian Tactics’
In the offices, there was an explanation of the computerised administration processes, grave search and interview room facilities.
If you buy into the grave danger proposed exception to jl, I wonder how drunk the guy has to be to constitue grave danger. The Volokh Conspiracy » Chief Justice Roberts Dissents from Denial of Fourth Amendment Case — Again
Three hundred thousand corpses in sandy mass graves cry out that the war was just. Tragedy of Tony Blair
The birds occupy a range of wetland habitats: lakes, rivers, reedbeds, sedge fens, marsh dykes, ponds, flooded gravel pits and meres.
Yield the title of the website, for example the thread that IT myna makes whole story, become a story to move toward the core element of ideal outcome, make graven one part.
It is typically French in plan: formal and neatly patterned, with rows of trees and gravel paths.
In my judgment, grave though the libel is, and grave though the aggravation has been, the answer to that question is decisively no.
So he argued against the rich being able to commemorate their war dead with ornate personal graves.
We can see hints of miasma too, again in the backstory, in the death of Semele and her pointedly untended grave. Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality
They believe that the pir's gravesite is full of blessings, and they attend at shrines to pray to God for favors.
The shapes and engraved decorations of these pieces are typical of medieval Islamic glassware.
The graves of women and children have also been found in the nearby cemetery which borders the eastern walls of Qumran.
Quarried stone is used mainly for the production of roof tiles and other heritage products rather than garden rockery stone or sand and gravel.
Was there any truth in the stories we had been told, did the Souls really come back from beyond the grave on that evening?
He hesitates, looking particularly grave, and finally brings himself to utter the shameful words.
There's something compelling, even mythic, about a boy reaching out from beyond the grave to save the children of his family's sworn enemy.
Normally, asphalt road surfaces are built on top of a bed of concrete, which is itself built atop a bed of gravel.
Among the great explorers is Dr. Wilder Graves Penfield. This World and the Mind of Man
They're monuments to dead climbers - not gravestones per se but carefully constructed shrines.
In our travels in Argentina, I've had the chance to visit Eva Peron's grave, fall in love with a local winery, and take a river cruise.
The new gravel road has been built parallel to the old tarmac Gun Park Road
The main path in the graveyard across the road from the church will be replaced this week.
The area around the building has long been used as a burial ground for unbaptised children, and the small headstones marking these sad graves can be seen.
D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs? Fiancée
For example, in the cemetery of St. Cyriacus two women bought from the fossor Quintus a bisomus, or double grave, retro sanctos (near a martyr's tomb), and there are several other references to this practice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Among his other skills, he was renowned as an engraver both in wood and in copperplate.
If I were to wait until some kind of separate road system for cycles is introduced, a dicky heart would have taken me to my grave before I managed to get on my bike.
A Shandean fate overtook his body, which was taken by grave-robbers, recognized at an anatomy lecture in Cambridge, and secretly returned to its grave.
Rome and her iniquities; the streets, deserted by the people, were trodden by French patrols; all was silent as the grave itself; and not a friend was there to bid them adieu; not a relative to speak a consoling word to the departing; and none to acquaint the unfortunates who remained behind with their terrible calamity! Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
When this breaker crashed onto the beach of popular culture, the legend was made and the grave dug, but the music his legacy has inspired is insipid and dull.
As I looked at these mines with their thousands of grinning natives and heard the rattle of gravel in the "jigs" my mind went back to Kimberley and the immense part that its glittering wealth played in determining the economic fate of South Africa. An African Adventure
A light westerly wind blew, gentle as the day, and whipped up the dusts moving them to scattered graves and other surrounding parts of the city.
He knew nothing of the elaborate machinery of ingenious chicane, - such as feigning bankruptcy - fraudulent conveyances - making over to his wife - running property - and had never heard of such tricks of trade as sending out coffins to the graveyard, with negroes inside, carried off by sudden spells of imaginary disease, to be "resurrected," in due time, grinning, on the banks of the Brazos. The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,
Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much, or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave — but there's no reason to be in the passing lane. Robert Orben
The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It surely has the finest opening of any such picture: a nightmarish scene in a fenland graveyard. Times, Sunday Times
One with his band's name engraved on it? Times, Sunday Times
All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century, the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures.
From 1932 to 1964 Graves lived in or near Seattle, then moved to Loleta in north-west California.
This may be least true of the long "culottes", trousers most closely resembling a skirt, and at best mistakable for a skirt, but insofar as "culottes" establish the principle of dividing woman's outward apparel from the waist down, they merely disguise the grave disorder. The Modesty of His Lordship
But since he or his representative maintained for years that his proabortion rights stance is consistent with being a Catholic in good standing, with receiving Holy Communion, leading family prayers, and being visited by priest friends, I can't for the life of me figure out why I should see his doing such things on his deathbed as "signs of repentance" for the manifest grave sin of his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
Seubert J, Yang B, Bradbury JA, Graves J, Degraff LM, et al. (2004) Enhanced postischemic functional recovery in CYP2J2 transgenic hearts involves mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K+ channels and p42/p44 MAPK pathway. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The wood engraver uses a hardwood, generally box, sawn across the grain of the wood and highly polished.
Found in the grave of a young woman, this elaborate necklace is noteworthy for its sophisticated design and use of polychromy. Hidden Treasures of Ancient Afghanistan
Mozart died in 1791 and was buried in a pauper's grave at Vienna's St. Mark's Cemetery.
Niece," said Don Inocencio gravely and sententiously, "when serious things have taken place, caprices are not called caprices, but by another name. Dona Perfecta
Commenting on the blockade, the SA Chamber of Business in a statement expressed its "grave concern" at what it called the broader economic and business consequences of the action. ANC Daily News Briefing
He caught the consumption from his son, whereby he soon followed him to the grave.
interred in an unlamented grave
I tell you what though, brother,’ said Dennis, cocking his hat for the convenience of scratching his head, and looking gravely at Hugh, ‘it’s worthy of notice, as a proof of the amazing equalness and dignity of our law, that it don’t make no distinction between men and women. Barnaby Rudge
If something needs to be done, I do it, I told him in a tone of voice that would engrave the words in his brain. Olivia
The grave also contained offerings such as ochre and flint tools, axes, and seashells.
A certain lugubrious yarn, "My Graves," was my masterpiece. The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career
The country was passing through a grave crisis.
Such programs include trips to Jewish heritage sites, former battlefields, military or regimental museums, and military gravesites.
For the French, the sport borders on a national obsession, but enthusiasts in Stockport are hoping the sound of metal boules on gravel will become a traditional feature of the English summer.
He installed a granite gravestone engraved on one side with solemn portraits, and on the other with a tender group picture. Times, Sunday Times
As a precaution against the disease lingering, quick lime was poured into the graves.
Their misdeeds, if that's what they really were, haunted some to their graves and continue to bedevil the still living who are never allowed to forget them.
Anything that the dying republicans can do at this point, including thrashing around and digging up newt from the grave, while their Dear Leader’s days in office disappear after every sundown, they will do. House Republicans Continue Vacation Protest - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
But what is interesting for visitors is that the garden is still evolving: a gravel garden with silver plants is surrounded by a cloister of youthful hornbeams.
White winged doves coo, and a whiptail lizard scurries across the gravel.
She had a small silver plaque engraved and fixed to the instrument. Times, Sunday Times
Love is a grave mental disease.
The paintings have been created using tactile road-surface materials such as sand, grit, gravel and liquid tar.
He sat down next to me on the grassy knoll by Tommy's grave.
In places the sound of the river rises up the gravel slope, and thirsty dogs rush down for a drink and cannot reascend; should the owner go down to fetch the dog, he or she will be trapped as well.
During the wars of the reign of Louis XIV. the margraviate was ravaged by the French troops, and the margrave of Baden-Baden, Louis William (d. 1707), was prominent among the soldiers who resisted the aggressions of France. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
They took a cab out to the small chapel and graveyard amongst the marble quarries on the outskirts of town. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Put a layer of fine gravel into the bottom of the plant pot for drainage.
Buck Mulligan stood up from his laughing scribbling, laughing: and then gravely said, honeying malice: Ulysses
Leaving his horse he walked around the perimeter, the grind of his boots on gravel and grass the only sound in the evening stillness.
To get essential drainage if you don't have a rock wall, plant in a mixture of two parts sand or gravel to one part potting mix.
Sadly this will set a very destructive precedent, which could place the future of our liberty in grave jeopardy.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry summoned Iran's charge d'affaires on Thursday to protest against what it called the confiscation of Ebadi's Nobel medal and diploma and express 'grave concern' about the treatment of her husband. Khaleej Times : UAE News
is gravely ill
wreathe the grave site
They stood in silent homage around the grave.
After following a narrow gravel road for about 200 metres we took off down a side track.
The tankard was a wedding gift from her husband, and a Dutch wedding scene is graven on the lid. Home Life in Colonial Days
When I open a beer, I do not want to be reminded of grey-suited, gimlet-eyed executives bludgeoning satire into an early grave.
'Can you see many long weeds and nettles amongst the graves; or do they look turfy and flowery?' Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
_ What you call epigram gives life and spirit to grave works, and seems principally wanted to relieve a long poem. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
The older travellers were certainly not blasés; they seemed to find pleasure and beauty wherever they looked: Ca da Mosto (1455), visiting the Senegal, detected in this graveolent substance, fit only for wheel-axles, a threefold property, that of smelling like violets, of tasting like oil of olives, and tinging victuals like saffron, with a colour still finer. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2
At first they saw only the little hand - the fist, decomposed but stretching out of the shallow grave.
Excavation has shown that instead of removing the peat which was shallow at this point, a thin layer of sand was spread over the top of the peat, and gravel with some sand was heaped over to form a low agger.
Stanley was very tall and though a very sweet man, he had a deep, gravelly voice that often got him jobs on cartoon shows as dastardly villains.
We don't know much about what the impact is when hundreds of tonnes of gravel are removed.
It is true that mormaers are found inland, but an analogy may be made with Carolingian border officials ‘margrave’ and ‘marquis’ which became titles for members of the nobility far away from a frontier.
Around him graves crept up the hillside in a mishmash of stone headstones and rotting wooden crosses.
The report expressed grave concern over the technicians' lack of training.
Jean-Claude Trichet hard line that the ECB collateral rules are graved in stone, therefore beware of downgrades in Greece, Spain, and Latvia. Lawrence G. McDonald: Weekly Market Wrap From Inside Wall Street
But despite being so rubbish and boring that it'd be more fun to watch a TV show about a static eggcup full of gravel from Norfolk, Sooty is back! Rosie O’Donnell Less Drunk Than Ever Before
I thought we were playing hardball,’ Ruth drawls and Faulkner frowns, appearing to be gravely insulted.
The dangerous frontier counties, or marches, had special governors- graf, margrave, or markherzog; Roland of Roncesvalles, for example, was governor of the Breton march. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
Phillis," said he, after a long silence, "do you know, it is my opinion that that old creature," pointing with his thumb to Aunt Peggy's house, "is so long used to grumblin 'and fussin', that she can't, to save her life, lie still in her grave. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is
[Footnote: The simple Sayer is also for "assayer," either of metals or of meat and drink -- "essayeur, an essayer; one that tasts, or takes an essay; and particularly, an officer in the mint, who touches every kind of new Coyne before it be delivered out" (Cotgrave). The Romance of Names
It is grave, sometimes eloquent, responsive to sorrow, filled with deep questioning.
For Jason is proving, albeit from his grave, that death does not absolve bias.
Histories make men wise ; poems witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Parts of the Via Appia Antica are closed to traffic on Sundays, and the stretch running south from the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, lined with crumbling graves and tall umbrella pines, and parallel to an aqueduct, is one of the finer archaeological walks in the world. The Road from Ravenna
Your wedding ring can be engraved with a personal inscription at no extra cost.
The front garden is laid out in gravel, while the large lawn to the rear provides an evening suntrap.
After a period of time in Ternate, she left and sailed southward of the Celebes where they stopped at an island and graved the ship for 26 days.
She heard the crunch of tires on the gravel driveway.
For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water.
An actual glass trophy engraved with my name. Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday we went to Jewsons and ordered some fence panels, posts, sand, gravel, cement etc.
The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
With an understanding that these old houses and cane fields tell no story to those who are removed from their history, the maintenance of the gravesites is a necessary act in the preservation of ancestry.
In the Seetalsee across the border in Austria a further £500m in ingots is said to repose in a watery grave.
What would be more exciting would be to load up our own versions of Mom — cigarette-smoking, gravel-voiced and imperfectthough she may be. I’m pretty sure I’m offended by this — or, at the least, nonplussed « Dating Jesus
In the first half of the eighteenth century ebony rosewood, and padouk were inlaid with floral designs ivory that was then engraved and highlighted with lac.
The United Nations said it was gravely concerned at the shelling of a Palestinian refugee camp in Latakia.
It really gravels me that everything was cut; they clear-cut everything.
Let us suppose, then, the era of 'gravels' past; the valleys which open into the fen sawn out by rivers to about their present depth. Prose Idylls, New and Old
The sediments comprise silts, sand, gravel and, often lenticular, silty clay, comparable with similar sediments in the Petrockstowc basin, where the bulk of the deposits are Eocene.
That's what a grave was: a dump for torn flesh, broken bones.
He's perfect as a camp hard-ass, spouting absurd rhetoric in his gravelly voice while depriving the inmates of the necessities of life.
His gravelly voice was even rougher than usual, harsh and grating, but the child didn't seem to notice.
In front of our building was a patch of raked gravel with flowerbeds full of geraniums and palm plants.
And I have left the bones of my transient carcasses in pond bottoms, and glacial gravels, and asphaltum lakes. Chapter 21
His precious remains rest quietly in the fresh made grave; his immortal spirit has winged its flight to the mansions of the blessed, for blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them. A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
landgrave," but returned to New York, and ultimately (1680) to Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings. Psychedelic Denver
When a family loses someone close, all they have is the grave, it's their only comfort and it's a sickening thought that people out there are ruining graves.
The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The elite were often buried in log-lined tombs within the charnel houses, accompanied by a selection of rich grave goods.
Writing in the British journal New Scientist, the famed poet and historian Robert Graves said in 1972, "Technology is now warring openly against the crafts, and science covertly against poetry.
However, often engravers’ and enamellers ' signatures do appear.
First they ran out of cider, then they ran out of vodka - things were looking grave.
The grave was marked by a simple headstone.
She was buried in a pauper's grave this weekend.
The northeast has become a managerial graveyard. Times, Sunday Times
Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ann Coulter, Christian Chauvinist:
They had gravely impaired the credibility of the government.
Then he proceeded to turn it over, leaf by leaf, and took exact notice of all in it: and it being _full of pictures of sundry mens cuts_, he could tell the palsgrave, who seemed also to be knowing in that kind, that this and this, and that and that, were of such a man's graving and invention. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
The Parish Council have asked me to express their grave concern that such an incident could have occurred at all.
The gathering was assembled to pay their respects and lay wreathes on all the graves.
SLUICE ROBBER: one way of separating gold from the gravel and sand in which it is found is to put the mixture into a slanting trough, called a sluice, through which water is run. The Short-story
Other tools, such as scrapers, gravers, drills, and notched flakes, accounted for only 4 percent of the formal artifacts.
Huckleberries flourish on the timbered slopes, and kinnikinick gladdens many a gravelly stretch or slope. Wild Life on the Rockies
Graves's disease is a malfunction of the body's immune system whereby antibodies mistakenly attack the thyroid gland.
There, revelries take place in the cemeteries, as families celebrate the Day of the Dead by actually hosting memorials over the graves of their loved ones. Day of the Dead celebrations across the world (Photos)
In the 19th century, numerous banks were set up throughout the country and were often engraved with a design identifying the locality.
However, Okuic still faces high prices of construction materials like sand and murram/gravel, not naturally found in Malakal, which results in high transportation costs from merchants importing them from Khartoum or Juba. Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
The paradox is all the stranger because the power shortage has had predictably grave consequences for economic growth.
“Lych” was the Old English word for corpse — hence the roofed-over lych gate outside most churches, for the temporary resting of the bier (and its bearers) on the way into the graveyard. The Moor
There, in introducing and explaining the meaning and purport of Article 2 and having regard to the grave breaches system of the Geneva Conventions, reference is made to international armed conflicts.
The crimes that the men committed are contemptible and grave, and the men deserve to lose their liberty for them.
One of the ancillary reasons, Hall decided to visit Assam was because he wanted to see if he could find the fabled graveyard of elephants - the final resting place these behemoths head towards when they sense the end was near.
The large area to the rear of the house is also graveled but could be developed as a lawn by new owners.
Scores of imitation Lee films were rushed out, with titles like Re-Enter the Dragon, Enter Another Dragon, Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger, or even Bruce Lee Fights Back From the Grave.
Most of us realize that humanity made a grave mistake by considering ancient civilizations to be primitive.
The first examples had painted wood or engraved and silvered dials similar to those of long case clocks.
She wore a ring engraved with the words 'Sa douçeur m'enchant' (Your sweetness enchants me). Frances Burney (1752-1840)
So when the earth-and-timber ramparts of Sulla's camp began to trace lines across the rolling Campanian horizon, Quintus Sertorius bade his cousin-in-law a grave goodbye, geed up his horse and departed. Fortune's Favorites
Bridle paths are replaced by motorable roads; new bus services affect life in previously remote hill areas; the resulting mass tourism poses a grave threat to the environment and contacts with the outside world change local culture.
Ma mere qui me sort "oh ben c pas grave si tu peux pas terminer tes etudes ben tu chercheras du travail tout court Pinku-tk Diary Entry
In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.
Minimalists will love the temple stone garden in which sawn tree trunks weave a path through unadorned gravel.
The apostolic visitation is going to be too little, too late, if the bishops and priests of the Church in the United States do not recognize what has happened and undertake their grave pastoral obligation to correct the errors of these communities. Transparency, Creativity, and Heresy
In the grave the rich and poor lie equal.
This means that there should be no material crossing the joint - not gravel stops, not copings, not membrane and certainly not roofing cement - that cannot flex or move with the movement of the structure.
As news of the shocking rampage spread, heartbroken relatives arrived to inspect their loved one's graves.
Sometimes you discovered a fresh shallow grave topped with a wooden cross or a boltless rifle stuck muzzle-down into the mud with a helmet on top of it. ONE SHOT-ONE KILL
Old comrades of the Lincolnshire Regiment had been given a £7,000 Lottery grant to cover the cost of going to Arras on April 9 to rebury the 20 soldiers found in a mass grave in France.
It was a 1988 Seagrave tractor-drawn Aerial Ladder Truck, the last of a generation that places the firefighter "tillerman" in the open elements; but to young Gavin, it was far more. LAFD News & Information
Ben left his horse tethered to the low-hanging branches of a slender pine and walked the short distance to the solitary grave.
The host of the dinner party sent my wife a wonderful bouquet of flowers and a card apologising for the grave discourtesy of a fellow guest.
From the top, we can see mosques, churches and synagogues and graveyard after graveyard.
Here, the wreck of a tugboat rests in its sandy Caribbean grave.
Not since Clay was stripped of his world title for conscientiously objecting to serving in Vietnam has a sportsman suffered as grave an injustice as this cricketer.
All aboard were in grave peril of drowning.
Tucked away in a graveyard slot in the middle of the week, Exposure punches way above its weight. Times, Sunday Times
Fill with stones until three-quarters full then top up with gravel and a layer of very gritty compost on top, about 3in deep.
He installed a granite gravestone engraved on one side with solemn portraits, and on the other with a tender group picture. Times, Sunday Times
The grave is where my grandparents and great-grandparents are buried.
The shops, each retaining many original 1920s art-deco features such as tiling, 'sunburst' lights and engraved glass features are time capsules of suburban shopping from nearly a century ago. Archive 2008-05-01
The pastiness combined with all of her wrinkles, and it made her look absolutely dreadful, as though she was an anemic dragged from the grave.
We thought we'd committed the maxidress to the fashion graveyard, but it's back. Times, Sunday Times
Not for them exactingness, caprice, the gay or grave analysis of love and lover: such moods charm alone in lovely women, and even in _them_ bring risks along. Browning's Heroines
A series of arrows points the way to the modest grave of Andrei Sakharov.
The intense grief wells up again at Noa's gravesite.
After prayers at the graveside, she was laid to rest under a carpet of floral tributes as many people offered their sympathies with the family.
[Illustration: "_Gravely passed from tent to tent_"] [Illustration: "_And threw her arms round little Ann_"] "Look at that child," said one, "I'm sure Plain Jane

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