Sentence examples for graves from inspiring English sources
The word "graves" is correct in written English
It is typically used to refer to burial sites for the deceased.
Example: "The cemetery was filled with old graves, each telling a story of the past."
Alternatives: "tombs" or "burial sites."
verb
En-third person singular of grave
The best of America was the best of the world … France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter – it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered.
When he'd finished making graves for his family, he gathered the people together and told them, "We can't protect you.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 12.23pm BST12 23 Andrew Griffiths, a Conservative, asks about campaign to restore the graves of people who won the Victoria Cross.
They let people down, and everyone knows, and they'll have to take that to their graves.
Traffickers, said by human rights activists to work with local officials and even police, regularly hold their captives to ransom, detaining and torturing them in jungle camps in southern Thailand where authorities have recently uncovered dozens of shallow graves.
We have no access to health services and there's only a primary school here," says one of the men, before going outside and showing the way to the graves of 20 residents they say were killed during the 2012 violence.
During her campaign, Bachmann sought to denounce her opponent, a successful businessman who founded the AmericInn hotel chain and now heads Graves Hospitality, as a supporter of Barack Obama's health insurance programme; he accused her of being an ineffective congresswoman.
The last time this debate reared its head, when the much-lauded incoming ECB chairman, Colin Graves, suggested there may be a route back for Kevin, I see I remarked that none of us should rule out the argument being the last thing we heard before we died, even if that expected departure date was decades away.
Pietersen's improbable hopes of reviving an impressive Test career which has brought him 23 hundreds were encouraged this month when the new England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves hinted that impressive first-class performances with a county could provide him with the pathway he needs.
Colin Graves, the incoming chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, made Pietersen a live issue again on Sunday when he said a return for the 34-year-old batsman was possible if he scored big runs in county cricket, an unexpected development which came hours after England's nine-wicket thrashing by Sri Lanka in Wellington, the team's third heavy defeat of a demoralising World Cup.
Bachmann defeated the Democrat Jim Graves by only 1.2% in the 2012 election – among the smallest margins in the country – despite outspending him.
