Example sentences for: graves

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

  • Of the 61 skeletons on display, dating from 1490 to 1540 (more than 200 were disinterred), those in pre-conquest graves lie in a fetal position, while post-con-quest skeletons lie in a Christian pose: outstretched with arms folded.

  • Confronted with evidence of mass graves, Pinochet remarked that they represented a "great savings of cemetery space."

  • Stedman's Medical Dictionary , 26th edition (1995), argues that Graves ' is correct, while the Churchill lexicon (1989) omits both apostrophe and s with Graves but keeps both with Parry's disease , another eponym for hyperthyroidism.

  • There are also pieces on the WTO riots and the mass graves in Juarez--unusually interesting stories for the A section--but for the really compelling copy you've got to venture inside "Style," where Howie Kurtz has an account of a group firing at the New York Times . The other day the Times tossed more than 20 employees from one of its clerical offices in Norfolk for sending "inappropriate and offensive" e-mails.

  • -- Leslie Graves


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