Sentence examples for grave mean from inspiring English sources

What does 'from cradle to grave' mean?

More subtly attractive is a pair of Baule figures, slender and grave, meant to seduce the nature spirits who are fonts of transcendent knowledge.

Ms Thompson lost her daughter suddenly to illness in 2013 and said leaving gifts at the grave "means the whole world" to the family.

Those last two points derive from the fact that the quality of the deceased's afterlife is supposedly determined by the attendance at their funeral, so having five people mourn by your grave means nobody loved you, resulting in a rebirth into something hideous to punish you for having no friends.

In addition, the absence of forensic expertise at the graves means that evidence needed to prosecute the murderers of Iraq may also be destroyed.

As it turns out, Ms. Canfield's grave illness means that her time as one of the roughly 50 million uninsured Americans was brief.

"Peace -- the message is peace" is what Lennon, right, who was killed in 1980, supposedly intoned from the grave by means of something called Electronic Voice Phenomenon, based on the belief that spirit voices communicate through radio and broadcast signals.

Yet, Washington's lack of focus on the "awful magnitude" of this Grave Recession means any initiatives this year -- or even next -- will be "fatally tardy and inadequate".

Grave insecurity means only a limited number of aid workers are able to operate within the centre.

"Just because you robbed the grave, doesn't mean you killed the guy".

According to Victorian Flower Language, asphodel is a type of lily meaning 'My regrets follow you to the grave' and wormwood means 'absence' and also typically symbolized bitter sorrow.