Sentence examples for grave blot from inspiring English sources
It inflicted grave injustice on a large group of people, and constituted a grave blot on his and his administration's reputation.
And if there ever was a woman alone, it was their mother, Millicent Awino, who stood by herself at the foot of two freshly dug graves on Thursday, blotting out reality with her hands over her face, as her only children disappeared into the ground.
On Page 12, where Scrooge takes Marley's ghost to be evidence not of the supernatural, but of his own indigestion ("more of gravy than of grave"), he converted the offending bit of food from being a "spot of mustard" to a less digestible "blot of mustard".
Blacklips was a Rorschach blot of the city's psyche; we were camping on the graves of all those queens who had died".
Tumour specimens from 23 patients with thyroid carcinoma, 22 patients with thyroid adenoma, 3 with Graves' disease, and tissues from 8 normal thyroid glands were analyzed by Southern blot hybridization for the physical state of c-myc and c-fos proto-oncogenes.
