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Example sentences for: grave

How can you use “grave” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

My mother, who is a charming woman in almost all other respects, appears to have a grave problem staying employed.
Rothchild wrote that the "external threat" to Jordan does not seem especially grave at the moment, though there is the risk of Iraqi subversion with so many Iraqi exiles on Jordanian soil and at its borders.
This was the commercial dock area in antiquity, and more recently the site of the modern city's slaughterhouse, not much frequented by tourists, although it is near the cemetery that contains the grave of John Keats.
Actually, our list does provide one more, far more practical, service: It should serve as grave warning to anyone who is even remotely contemplating writing a book on the fate of the environment.
The Communist Party views the smuggling as a breakdown of political order and therefore as a grave threat to party rule.