Sentence examples for in its grave from inspiring English sources

Now that Halloween is cold in its grave, it's that time of year again.

With racial apartheid barely in its grave, it was a classic Mandela gesture to appoint a white person to his inner circle, despite objections at the time.

A humble peasant shroud would do – ideally a little torn and frayed, to indicate that the vampire had been chewing hungrily on it in its grave.

"We thought we put Jim Crow in its grave, buried it six feet under and were through with it once and for all.

As it becomes more music-and talk- oriented, will it put radio in its grave, as TV was supposed to do 50 years ago?

Old Dippy, whose dumb dinosaur brain might be turning in its grave over such an insulting name were it not stood in a giant Victorian foyer, has only even been there in for 35 years or so - it's not like we're bulldozing Stonehenge.

The government of Brazil issued a statement in which it expressed its "grave concern" over the detention of one of its citizens and the use of anti-terror legislation.

The Normandie, which cost $60 million, met an untimely death when it capsized and burned in its docking grave in 1942, and its Art Deco grandeur and sophisticated design were reduced to scrap metal sold for $3.80 a ton.

More successful was his financial aid to the search team that found the Titanic in its Atlantic grave.

The heroic rhetoric of the left should should remain in its unquiet grave; conflict between fundamentalisms only leads back to the antique dance of hatred, blood, grief and remorse.

In 1968 he obtained permission to disinter Hall's body from its grave in northwestern Greenland and remove samples of body tissue for an autopsy.