grave
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His last request before being transferred to the court was to visit her grave.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Bloom said young eagles, like KD1, are more prone to grave mistakes when it comes to rearing young, from egg to eaglet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Yabloko has called the war in Ukraine “a grave crime” and campaigned for “a ceasefire, diplomacy, and peace!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Helaena saw through all of it, and what she saw but had yet to say, well, she took that to her grave.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
They lingered in front of Willie’s grave, and Elisha confided that his little brother “had suffered much in the delirium of his last illness.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
So far, the war in Iran has put them in even graver danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
Takaichi's challenges are graver: Japan is older, its economy is still growing too slowly and the world is in a very different place.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Before I was ever a graver myself, one of my now-comrades in Texas wrote a memorial to a man on Find a Grave.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Surely the threats posed to Tabassum can’t be graver than those facing a president of the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
“Don’t you dare speak to Draco like—” said Narcissa furiously, but Bellatrix screamed, “Be quiet! The situation is graver than you can possibly imagine, Cissy! We have a very serious problem!”
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Mr. Rubio states that at its inception the ICC was proposed as a backstop against the gravest crimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It follows a landmark UN resolution earlier in March which recognised transatlantic slavery as the "gravest crime against humanity", urging UN member states to contribute to a reparations fund.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
The conference, which brought together leaders from around Africa and the Caribbean, comes after the United Nations adopted a historic resolution that declared the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Alicia Keys fills the CRV that drives me past MacArthur Park, site of my gravest parenting anxieties.
From Slate ● May 10, 2026
The gravest issues seem to have occurred among the partisans, the guerrilla resistance fighters on the German-occupied side of the front lines.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
When they pull up to the empty lot, she isn’t sure it’s right—the dirt graved in white and the scrappy weeds glazed to silver.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague.
From Time Magazine Archive
Agony was visibly graved in every feature and in every line of his face.
From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train
In another mat we found some Indian tomahawks finely graved and painted.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
A boy is to be graved weeping over a broken urn.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
The difference here is that Jackson’s intended audience—which, again, includes the vast majority of Americans who do not keep a graven image of Antonin Scalia in their homes—does not take assertions like this seriously anymore.
From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2024
Those included condemnation of just the sort of graven imagery his son would later master for the Church of Rome and its royal cohorts in Habsburg Spain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Some passed him like he was one of the graven images carved into the columns.
From The Verge ● Feb. 4, 2019
Here are some Jefferson quotes that visitors will not find on his memorial, a Roman pantheon-style temple to liberty where the Sage of Monticello's graven image keeps vigil over the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017
“Their names shall be graven on the Gates of Fate amongst the other valiant fallen,” declared Barsena.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
It’s what sucked me into graving, despite my startling first encounter with Find a Grave.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
This graving free-for-all has caused some controversy over the years.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
The work of graving will never be finished.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Los Angeles County likes to talk about its orange-juice joints, tabernacles, oil wells and graving docks, keep a stiff and silent upper lip over its floods and earthquakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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