Sentence examples for becomes grave from inspiring English sources

When the illness of Jordana's mother becomes grave, Oliver reads a child-psychology book about the importance of pets and how their death introduces children to the grieving process – so he makes an appallingly misjudged attempt to poison Jordana's dog in order to soften the blow of her mother's imminent demise.

But the lyrics, like the show, can't seem to hold the positive and the negative in the same breath, and what should be a compelling ironic conundrum — Hunsecker is evil, natch, but he is also glamorous, witty, and seductive — becomes grave and one-dimensional.

Third, a person with a depression diagnosis can function fine, unless the illness becomes grave and the dark mood colors sound judgement or if cognitive capacities are diminished because of the illness.

Government regulators often do not appear on the scene of brokers until troubles become grave.

An already complicated situation became grave when an embassy doctor examined Mr. Chen.

His face became grave, and we walked past three or four houses before he said any more.

His parents tried to get him to concede that he was a little boy born in a hospital, but he would become grave and refuse.

The group became grave while Hicks spoke of their twenty-one year-old-driver, Mohammed, who has not been seen following their arrest.

Senior Bush administration officials, including Tom Ridge, the secretary of homeland security, acknowledged that the situation for local governments had become grave.

The continued fighting and verbal sparring came as the United Nations said problems faced by the region's Palestinians had become grave, and Mr. Roed-Larsen complained that Israel had not done enough to relieve suffering.

"From March, the situation became grave, so we had to reduce our inventories and production significantly," said Nobuyuki Idei, the chairman of Sony, which reported a much larger-than-expected loss last month.