"something grave" is an acceptable phrase and is used in written English.
You could use it to refer to a serious situation or a heavy responsibility or obligation. Example: "This is something grave that must be addressed immediately."
"I don't feel I need to write something grave.
Audience members said they could tell by Mr. Radcliffe's and Mr. Larroquette's tone that something grave had happened.
In "Death of a Murderer," the novelist Rupert Thomson has used both the fascination and the horror to make something grave and haunting.
There is something grave and bleak about his art, with its reference to dirt and cleanliness, hygiene and anxiety, the unsaid and the unspeakable.
I began avoiding my in-box, figuring any important messages would be re-sent until I noticed them, or delivered by a more efficient route, like a text message or, in the case of something grave or urgent, a call.
The higher its concentration, the greater the warming - and, more important still, the greater the chance of triggering something grave and irreversible: rising sea levels due to the melting of Greenland's icecap; runaway release of methane in the tundra.
But these deals may underscore something graver: weak fundamentals.
THE elections on June 4th may produce something graver than another nail in the government's coffin.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Moments of stillness allowed characters to emerge, and what at first seemed to be an antic, gimmick-centered work evolved into something graver, a study of isolation and alienation, in which small conflicts between dancers broke out and resolved in the blink of an eye.
Moments of stillness allowed characters to emerge, and what at first seemed to be an antic, gimmick-centered work evolved into something graver, a study of isolation and alienation, in which small conflicts between dancers broke out and resolved in the blink of an eye.
It takes something very grave and shocking to break through that torpor.
