Sentence examples for grave as a from inspiring English sources

If the game was logical, it would have gone to its grave as a spectator sport years ago.

Efforts to reach Mr. Sarrazin were unsuccessful, but he had vowed previously to "go to the grave" as a member of the party which he joined in 1973.

Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary," published in 1906, defined "grave" as "a place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student".

The increasing use of cremation facilitates this disposition to reduce the social intrusion of death and banish the traditional grave as a reminder of human mortality.

In "Tabloid Dreams," Butler took the preposterous — a jealous husband, for example, returning from the grave as a parrot in his cheating wife's home — and made it heartbreaking.

Kashmiris creating a hollow grave as a mausoleum to memory and resistance and India making a craven declaration: that a Kashmiri corpse can be seditious.

She is a grave as well as protection.

But there they were, 25,000 people representing the business aviation industry along with the extensive worldwide trade media gathered for the annual National Business Aviation Association convention, looking as grave as an assembly of undertakers who had just checked their 401 k)s.

Many bodies remain unclaimed and have been buried in paupers' graves as a temporary measure.

The couple and their son run for safety but are hunted down, and two stone shrines are raised over their graves as a sign of Siahpads' revenge.

Andrew Miller has his hero, Breton engineer Jean-Baptiste Baratte, clear the rancid graves as a metaphor for what will have to be cleared when the revolution comes; brilliantly making the political personal for his characters.