Example sentences for: graves

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

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

  • During the rest of the year, attendance to burial sites does not diminish, and graves are kept decorated and colorful.

  • 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.

  • Casualties were high for these pioneers and the German war cemetery above the airfield holds the graves of over 4,000 young men.

  • As Graves writes, "Now he could not move a finger."


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