grave
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To fully exorcise himself of Gein after completing the show, Hunnam traveled to Plainfield, Wis., to visit his grave site and say a final goodbye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Fans were asked not to leave socks on the mock grave, made of pebbles with messages written on them, because the beach was environmentally sensitive.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
That same sea that baptized me is, for thousands of others, a grave.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
In one of his posts, he could be seen at the grave of Leobardo Aispuro, an influencer known as "El Gordo Peruci".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Declaration laughed like a maniac as she ran up the rise and into the cemetery, toward shelter at Aunt Florentine’s grave.
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
So far, the war in Iran has put them in even graver danger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
In fact, with the world becoming more chaotic and unstable, the threat they pose, the film argues, is graver than ever.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
Al Wilson, a Pennsylvania-based graver and local historian in his city, is interested in the documentation aspect of Find a Grave.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Reeling from heartache, Monaco seems to search for meaning and solace in the far graver misfortunes of a friend referred to as “R,” a political prisoner turned asylum seeker and the show’s most revisited subject.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
It was irresistible, she knew, even delicious, for the graver it was, the worse it would be for Robbie.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
The ICC, which has 125 member states, seeks to prosecute individuals responsible for the world's gravest crimes when countries are unwilling or unable to do so themselves.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
At first, it was marketed as a narrow backstop to prosecute the gravest crimes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The conference, which brought together leaders from around Africa and the Caribbean, comes after the United Nations adopted a historic resolution that declared the transatlantic slave trade "the gravest crime against humanity".
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
The country successfully pushed for a UN resolution in March, which recognised the enslavement of Africans as the "gravest crime against humanity".
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
I didn’t know then if I had witnessed the gravest humility or conceit.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
When they pull up to the empty lot, she isn’t sure it’s right—the dirt graved in white and the scrappy weeds glazed to silver.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2017
Those words of Czechoslovakia's national hero, Jan Hus, are en graved on the base of his statue in Prague.
From Time Magazine Archive
As the tides ebbed and flowed considerably, the ships were put on shore to be careened and graved.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles
I knew her in her prime, Before the seal of Time Was graven on her brow, As Age hath graved it now: When radiant Youth was just subdued To yield to gracious womanhood.
From The Coast of Bohemia by Page, Thomas Nelson
All are equal there; and the memory that he left, and the characters that he graved on the rock, while they move our pity, stir our wonder too.
From Essays by Benson, Arthur Christopher
Those included condemnation of just the sort of graven imagery his son would later master for the Church of Rome and its royal cohorts in Habsburg Spain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Some passed him like he was one of the graven images carved into the columns.
From The Verge ● Feb. 4, 2019
Here are some Jefferson quotes that visitors will not find on his memorial, a Roman pantheon-style temple to liberty where the Sage of Monticello's graven image keeps vigil over the Tidal Basin in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2017
These lists are never meant to be permanent historical judgments, graven in stone.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2012
The old-man sat on when the last plate was emptied, lost in his own world, his peaceful stillness diffusing through the little cabin so that the watchers sat graven in their places.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
It’s what sucked me into graving, despite my startling first encounter with Find a Grave.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
The work of graving will never be finished.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
This graving free-for-all has caused some controversy over the years.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
The King George V graving dock, only one in England big enough to accommodate giantesses like the Queen Mary, was out of commission with smashed floodgates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Through that window he could watch his Western Star graving in the graving dock.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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