grave

Example Sentences

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“I think it’s a grave mistake to think the change in the personnel on the ground constitutes a change in policy,” said Lucas Guttentag, a professor of law at Stanford University who specializes in immigration.

From Los Angeles Times

For banks, the risk of customers diverting deposits to stablecoins and potentially gutting their core business was too grave a threat.

From Barron's

He will rest until the end of time in the watery grave that lies between the land we have left and the land we will soon know.

From Literature

Frost and the other claimants have accused Associated Newspapers of "grave breaches of privacy" over a 20-year period.

From BBC

This would "drastically" increase energy demand for cooling in developing nations where the gravest health consequences would be felt.

From Barron's