Example sentences for: grievous

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

  • Since it is obvious that studios will want to immediately correct this grievous social injustice, Today's Papers feels compelled to confess that it is a black woman over fifty.

  • Yet the media consensus is that McCain is ready for Bush in New Hampshire, while Bradley has suffered a grievous blow and faces the likelihood of a conclusive defeat next week.

  • Also in Newsweek , drug-of-last-week ketamine, or "Special K" (see last week's Time), gives way to drug-of-this-week gamma hydroxybutyrate, known as "GHB" or "Grievous Bodily Harm."

  • Of the two, the W geographical listings seem more complete: W lists Aylesbury , which, through some grievous, egregious fault, is not in the geographical section of the L but does appear in the A-Z section (because of the ducks).

  • the Beats really do mark an important moment in American culture, not as one of its achievements, but as a grievous example of its degeneration."


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