Sentence examples for by a grave expression from inspiring English sources

Martin Conway describes the portrayal of a dignified man marked by a grave expression and deep "furrows ploughed by seventy years of labour and sorrow".

A militant poet with a grave expression on his face was giving a speech.

Thomas has worn a grave expression in recent meetings with reporters.

Vittorio tells me about the time Pasolini came to a private screening of one of the Tavianis' films, only to storm off afterwards wearing a grave expression.

You had to look around to find Churchill's shoulders and head, a grave expression on his face, sitting on a table nearby.

"I think you should move," the fellow who assists me weekly with the upkeep of my one-room domestic nest said with a grave expression not long ago.

Pettitte emerged from his deposition with a serious, somewhat grave expression, accompanied by his wife and three lawyers.

His face wore a fake-grave expression.

Navajo uses two pitches in this way—high, represented by an acute accent, and low, represented by a grave accent.

The division's situation was not improved by a grave error of judgement by Montgomery.

Suddenly you're beset by a grave affliction.