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grave - use in sentences
Converse of object
- dig: Her son even dug a grave in the garden.
- desecrate: Even with her passenger's walking difficulties this was no reason to desecrate two graves simply for their own benefit.
- tend: There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew.
Adjective modifier
- unmarked: Jones is buried in an unmarked grave in the nearby St Mary's churchyard.
- watery: One poor woman was so intoxicated that she tumbled into the water at the depot and met a watery grave.
- shallow: We bury her in a shallow grave by the road.
- mass: The location of mass graves appears to be rare.
- marked: Over 160,000 soldiers died during that time; most are buried on the peninsula, not all in marked graves.
- unpurchased: Right 4: You have the right to be buried in an unpurchased grave.
Modifies a noun
- robber: The same place had once been grave robbers because.
- danger: Experience | Danger in Vietnam | Joseph | Vision | Buy Have you ever been in grave danger?
- slab: There are said to be 3 18th century grave slabs also.
- marker: Sited on the plinth, below the horse's tail, is Horner's original wooden cross grave marker.
- misgiving: Was any action of any kind taken or proposed in response to the grave misgivings at how our business together was being conducted?
- concern: The prospects of BNFL running Dounreay would be viewed with grave concern by many outside the industry.
Noun used with modifier
- battlefield: Notes: 1. Arundell's original battlefield grave marker is located near the entrance to Cheltenham Cemetery.
Possessives
- pauper: Making no attempt to solve the crime, the local authorities rapidly transfer the corpse to a pauper's grave.
Preposition: in
- churchyard: There are two World War I war graves in the churchyard also.
- cemetery: There is also one war grave in the nearby cemetery.
Preposition: from
- battlefield: It was enlarged after the Armistice by the concentration of graves from the battlefields of Arras and the Ancre and from other burial grounds.
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