Sentence examples for given grave from inspiring English sources

A prominent tradition is that of the ship burial, where the deceased was laid in a boat, or a stone ship, and given grave offerings in accordance with his earthly status and profession, sometimes including sacrificed slaves.

"Clearly, five suicide attempts in a few weeks ought to give grave cause for alarm," an Amnesty spokesman, Alistair Hodgett, said yesterday.

A professional puppeteer, she seems most at peace only when she's giving grave, gravelly voice to one of her creations.

When The Fellowship of the Ring came out last year I gave grave and unrecallable offence to the Tolkie fanbase with disobliging remarks about how the whole middlebrow mythology was dull and overrated, and how this admittedly beautifully designed children's movie was treated with baffling reverence by adults showing a misplaced, sentimental loyalty to their earlier, 12-year-old selves.

Instead it gave grave owners two months to remove any non-authorised items they wished to keep.

Weed and soil scientists are giving grave warnings as to the effects of GMO crops on the escalating use of chemicals in agriculture.

I do think that E. E. Cummings gives Graves a serious challenge, though I know that many sound people dismiss Cummings's love poetry outright, as self-congratulatory and goopy.

Some economists have warned that the package may be too small, given the grave condition of the economy.

If they have returned to New Orleans at all, that is, given the grave wounds to the health care system.

Most members of Congress have been receptive to the airline's concerns, given its grave condition in an election year.

Eliot was a literary mandarin, the confident product of St . LouisWasp gentry, and an elliptical Catholic royalist given to grave, decorous outbursts of anti-semitism.