How to use "grave" in a sentence

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Marius returned to Paris, but continued to visit his father's grave regularly, without telling his grandfather

She had lost her child and her husband in the same year, the man first, and then the boy, the son to the grave and the husband to the winds of change

She was able to think about the boy without crying, to visit his grave without being overcome by grief

"The grave?"

in the grave?"

"Reopen the grave."

"Anyway," she said, "even if reopening the grave doesn't help me find who's responsible for these sick jokes - or whatever the hell they are - at least it'll settle my mind about Danny

If that were the situation, we'd have the grave opened very quickly

I arranged to have the grave reopened

"And we reopened the grave only two months after the funeral, not a whole year later

Then we could open the grave early Saturday."

He spent an hour and a half in his library, paging through legal casebooks, boning up on precedents for the exhumation of a body that, as the court had put it, "was to be disinterred in the absence of a pressing legal need, solely for humane reasons, in consideration of certain survivors of the deceased." Elliot didn't think Harold Kennebeck would give him any trouble, and he didn't expect the judge to request a list of precedents for something as relatively simple and harmless as reopening Danny's grave, but he intended to be well prepared

Kennebeck listened with interest to Elliot's unofficial feeler about the chances of getting Danny's grave reopened

"And you'll have the grave reopened by tomorrow afternoon."

"Got to know why she wants her little boy's grave reopened."

Why in the hell should Kennebeck care whether or not Danny's grave is reopened? Why should you care? Who the hell are you people?"

We just have to find out exactly why the Evans woman wants the grave reopened

The doctor pronounced him dead, and his grieving parents committed Kevin to the grave

The vision was so vivid, so disturbing, that she and her husband raced back to the city that very night to have the grave reopened at dawn

But Death decided that Kevin belonged to him, because the funeral had been held already and because the grave had been closed

They arrived at the grave by dawn, had it opened, and found their son alive, released from his coma

While Elliot drove, he told Tina what had happened at his house: the two thugs, their interest in the possibility of Danny's grave being reopened, their admission that they worked for some government agency, the hypodermic syringes...

I'm pretty sure we can find a reporter who'll go with that much and write a story about how a bunch of nameless, faceless people want to keep us from reopening Danny's grave, how maybe something truly strange lies at the bottom of the Sierra tragedy

"Now," Tina said, "just like Death tried to stop the parents in the story, someone's trying to stop me from opening my son's grave."

The best thing we could do is get the grave reopened

"But we can't reopen the grave ourselves," Tina said

"What're you saying - that Danny reached out to you from the grave to cause that excitement in the restaurant? Tina, you really don't think his ghost was haunting a jukebox?"

But on the other hand, she was working through Stryker to have her son's grave reopened, which seemed to indicate that she knew something.

If the woman actually hadn't known anything of the cover-up, then the Network could have used her ex-husband and the legal system to delay the reopening of the grave

They would have opened the grave secretly, at night, when the cemetery was closed, switching the remains of the fake Danny for the rocks that were currently in the casket

So if they can't open the grave and see for themselves what we've done to Danny Evans, what are they going to do instead? They're going to do the next best thing - talk to the person who was supposedly the last one to see the boy's corpse before it was sealed in the coffin

The dead lady's husband was out of the country, so my mistress arranged for the lady to be buried in her home town in Cumberland in the same grave as her mother.

In the deepest misery, I went to Limmeridge to see her grave

I went to Mrs Fairlie's grave

Standing before me - beside her own grave - was Laura, Lady Glyde!