Sentence examples for they were grave from inspiring English sources

Dan Meridor, Israel's intelligence minister, responded on Friday to Mr. Erdogan's recent threats, saying they were "grave and serious".

I sat on COID selection committees in the 1960s and they were grave affairs in which the relative merits of British-made teapots and toasters were deliberated.

They were grave diggers at the cemetery and they left us off at the Iwo Jima statue,There was a large crowd across the street around a TV that was in the lobby of an apartment building.

"They are grave robbers".

Far from it, they are sober, grave, maybe a little dour; in their big hands and weary postures, you see hard work in fields.

Each has a stake pointing down, as if, wait, they really are grave markers.

People believe they must be grave and grim to be noticed by God.

He thanked the rescue teams, saying that with the aftershocks, they were facing grave risks.

"Some of the people thought they were in grave danger from the smoke," said Sal Cassano, a deputy assistant fire chief.

On Thursday, they were having grave discussions about the return of the dissident Irish terror threat, after letter bombs were sent to army recruitment centres.

The background, though never the tone, is grave: they have lost their mother, and their father is struggling to make middle-class ends meet.