Example sentences for: gravely

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

  • An article defends Chai Ling, who led the Tiananmen Square protests and now runs an American Internet start-up, from charges of selling out and, more gravely, of guiding the protests with naive extremism.

  • Irons is the upper-class English poet priss, locking liquid eyes on his co-stars and gravely over-enunciating.

  • Historian Thomas Reeves believes that, despite the media's reluctance to look into Kennedy's private life, if he had lived to have a second term: "[T]he realities of his lechery and his dealings with Sam Giancana might have leaked out while he was still in office, gravely damaging the presidency.

  • Arguably, impeachment has tarnished Clinton's presidency as gravely as he could have imagined.

  • Finkelstein carefully sets forth Goldhagen's distortion and disregard of the secondary literature; Birn masterfully lays bare his gravely flawed use and interpretation of archival sources.


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