Example sentences for: graves

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

  • Sapper's design paved the way for what is still the most iconic kettle of all: Michael Graves' "Five O'Clock" teakettle, designed for Alessi and introduced in 1985, is conical in shape, with a long spout.

  • His compulsion emerged when both President and Mrs. Bush were diagnosed as having Graves's disease, one of several eponyms for hyperthyroidism, a common condition caused by excessive secretion of thyroid hormone.

  • When Hera first appeared in mythology as Zeus' wife, she was also his co-sovereign, writes Graves, but as the millenniums marched on, she became subservient to him.

  • Robert Graves, who wrote a book in the 1920s called The Future of Swearing , thought that profanity was the adult replacement for childhood tears.

  • It looks like a cemetery, but these are not actual graves.


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