Sentence examples for a slightly grave from inspiring English sources

Possibly his age – by this time he was 40 – and a slightly grave demeanour counted against him as a romantic lead, and he never displayed any leaning towards comedy.

He was a reserved and slightly grave figure, and talking with him was like being trapped with someone whose mind had no reach.

So we opted for a sombre burial in the Greenhouse, under the shade of the tallest of the mangroves, though in truth it meant a slightly watery grave after all, stuff seeping up through the muck to swallow the foot, bubbles of mud detaching and floating among us during our tiny, foot-size ritual observances.

Extracting ancient DNA, particularly if the bones come from a site with poor conditions for preservation – such as the clay where Richard's uncoffined body was hastily buried in a slightly too short grave – is notoriously difficult.

A slightly younger reader.

A slightly dysfunctional bubble.

It would be a slightly less romantic scenario to collide with a potential lover as a result of mutual Tinder scourage; Austen would loosen her corset and turn in her grave.

For a child whose parents are about to take her and her friends to an extravagant indoor playground, this misfortune seems only slightly less grave than Gregor Samsa's wake-up discovery that he'd become a huge bug.

"A travesty, a grave crime," he splutters.

The hole should be bigger than a grave and slightly smaller than a suburban swimming pool and an intricate tunnel system if you plan on having a ballin' tunnel.

Mr Paxton attacked his opponent, Dan Branch, for having proposed in 2005 an amendment to an amendment that would have made a pending abortion law slightly less stringent a grave offence.