Sentence examples for like grave from inspiring English sources
Their names are planted throughout like grave markers: Frost, Hopkins and Colette; Blake, Dickens and Larkin; Keats, Yeats and Rilke; Basho, Bishop and Neruda — and many more.
As the lawsuit moved forward in Ecuador, Donziger and his team felt daunted by what seemed like grave disadvantages.
Rotting stumps, some bigger than a banquet table, are like grave markers for the trees on the steep forest floor.
Mr. Hiassen is such an assured humorist that he can underplay the best of his constructions, like "grave robbery gone bad".
Mr. Cummings also has oddities like more than 90 sugar kettles up to 9 ½ feet wide and dozens of rusted metal crosses that will be posted outdoors like grave markers.
In this, Blair echoed the findings of a formal intelligence community review, which concluded that terms like "grave damage" were not used in any clear or consistent way across the community.
Cists are relatively simple box-like graves, usually made up of stone slaps and covered with a large stone or slab.
Writing felt a little like grave-robbing, but also like the opposite — like a way of filling the Prince-shaped hole in the world.
Caches of old papers are like graves; you shouldn't open them.
"Taverns like graves where they serve water and call it beer," he grouses.
By Nadine Gordimer Caches of old papers are like graves; you shouldn't open them.
