How to Use grave in a Sentence

grave

1 of 2 noun
  • No stone marks the dog's grave.
    — Jennie Key, Cincinnati Enquirer, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But no such grave has been found.
    — Leigh Blickley, Entertainment Weekly, 26 June 2026
  • Disney+ can’t dig up that grave fast enough.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Or rather, what the grave cannot hold.
    — Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
  • The Knicks, once again, dug their own graves.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • Dug up the graves of a couple more.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Yes, Gein dug up graves and stole body parts.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The grave’s a fine and private place.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
  • She was buried in an unmarked grave.
    — Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Three years later a white fox dug up his grave.
    — Urnesha Bhattacherjee, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Next, get out of the box, the chest, your grave, with your head.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Speaking of the grave, what is in that?
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Mira looked at him, her face grave and blank.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The grave is still empty, the stone is still rolled.
    — Ilana Kaplan, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Doba raked the leaves around the grave with a branch from the ground.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Men in white hazmat suits pour lime over the brown soil to seal the graves.
    — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But above all, Khartoum is a city of graves.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Hannah then set out to find Katharine’s grave.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
  • At one time, the site had more than 5,000 graves.
    — Dallas Morning News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • My grandad is rolling in his grave…in order to reach his phone to buy a pair.
    — Kassondra Cloos, Outside, 23 Dec. 2025
  • They were buried in an unmarked grave somewhere.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This seems to me like my parents trying to rule us from the grave.
    — Ilyce Glink and Samuel Tamkin, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
  • Even the headstone of his grave was removed.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • There is no liberty in the grave.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Peter can’t hurt anyone else now—not from the grave.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The sound echoed off the walls of graves as families danced and drank beer.
    — NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
  • With Tim Payne from the cradle to the grave.
    — Miami Herald, 1 June 2026
  • Children who sleep on their parents’ graves.
    — Sara Stridsberg september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • An overhead shot reveals many, many graves.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 June 2026
  • Perhaps the grave holds some insight.
    — Literary Hub, 5 May 2026

grave

2 of 2 adjective
  • I have grave doubts about this plan.
  • They have placed themselves in grave danger.
  • The French word père is written with a grave accent over the first e.
  • The judge issued his ruling with a grave expression.
  • This violation of school rules is a grave matter.
  • His carelessness could have grave consequences.
  • But this would be a grave mistake.
    — Christian Kroll, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
  • That will have grave impacts on public health as well.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The movie’s gravest sin, though, might be its very existence.
    — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • Dakota Hill was sitting at home when his dad walked in with grave news.
    — Karthik Krishnamurthy, oregonlive, 22 July 2023
  • Climate change has emerged as one of the gravest concerns facing mankind.
    — Ajay Khari, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • These kinds of grave goods were buried with the dead in the hopes that they could be used in the afterlife.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Put this to rest because this is an issue of grave concern to my constituents.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
  • She was buried with objects such as jet hairpins, a group of rare glass flasks, and other grave goods.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026
  • The world outside me was big and rich with far more important and grave matters.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Millions of children face grave risks to their health, safety and well-being.
    — Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • This is the third major mass-grave incident in Kenya over the last three years.
    — ABC News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But this is not a cradle-to-the-grave biography.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 4 Aug. 2025
  • She was listed in grave condition.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Softness was thought to be a grave national danger.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The dead of this forest have not rested, not since they were dragged to their grave screaming and begging.
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Meeting with Epstein was a grave error in judgment and put this work at risk.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • On this Sunday, a day meant for worship and peace, such violence is a grave evil.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Worse yet, the trails that people use to return to their spirit homes after death are in grave danger.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2024
  • As the mourners slowly thinned, the dead fighter’s older brother emerged from the grave site.
    — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
  • On these extremely hot days, even tiny mistakes can have grave consequences.
    — Joshua Partlow, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
  • There are 20 hostages who are believed to be alive, with grave concerns for the well-being of two of them.
    — Ami Kaufman, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The story moves from euphoria to something more melancholy and grave.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Nude, striding statues of young men called kouroi were used both as offerings to the gods and as grave markers.
    — Anna Swartwood House, The Conversation, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The skies above the front lines in Ukraine have been swarming with drones for years now, posing a grave threat to infantry.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026

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