Sentence examples for gravely hold from inspiring English sources

As the credits rolled, one turned to another and asked, gravely: "Hold on.

"If Lin Dan wins, I'll only watch the match once," he said gravely, holding up his index finger.

"What do foreign women want in a man?" he asked me gravely, holding out a cup of beer that he'd scooped out of a communal bucket.

"Do you ever think about the innocent victims of your gun control?" Oliver asked the former Australian prime minister John Howard, gravely holding up a photograph of one politician, as if it were the portrait of a massacred child.

I just nod and gravely concur.

"We would sit close to each other and hold each other close," he recalls gravely.

Inside the Houses of Parliament he was known to hold prayer sessions for SDLP MPs when he learned that some of their loved ones were gravely ill.

They could have had a seat now, but they stayed by the door, holding each other and looking gravely back at their own reflections.

The surgeon looks up gravely from the operation he is performing, holding a blood-spattered scalpel like a pen as he explains a point to the audience of medical students.

The Roman Catholic Church, for example, considers masturbation a "gravely disordered action," in part because it holds that sexual acts outside of the context of both marriage and procreation are wrong.

Six people were killed, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and 13 others were wounded, several gravely — among them Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who had been holding a Meet Your Congresswoman event just outside the supermarket's doors.