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“Big picture, the way I’m looking at it, I’m gonna go to my grave thinking I helped the city save millions and millions of dollars by helping the city secure control of two long-term assets,” Wood said.

The architects are likely rolling in their graves at this use of their plans, but our attention to detail allowed the producers of the virtual commencement video to transition seamlessly from the animated dome to images of the real one.

We need to use it as something that makes the situation more grave, rather than the only reason to give them protection.

You’ll see it a lot on social media today in contexts that aren’t so grave and somber … like that chicken sandwich.

Cassidy and Bradley’s team studied DNA from 44 individuals buried in various Irish tombs and graves dating to between roughly 6,600 and 4,500 years ago.

That distant whirring sound you hear is a long-dead Greek physician spinning in his grave.

A “komitetchik par excellence,” a man of “outstanding mediocrity,” and “the grave digger of the revolution.”

“I read articles that say ‘here’s another white girl joining in on the dance party on the grave of hip hop,” she says.

“The amount of literal brainwork needed to do his job too such a toll on him that it sent him to an early grave,” Goode says.

You have focused on individual events and ideas in your books about Lincoln rather than the cradle-to-grave biographical approach.

The water suggested the fear that he must be nearing the open sea, and he became supernaturally grave.

After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.

They carried the two bodies together on some litters, and buried them both in the same grave.

He, therefore, did as he said; made no further observation, but conducted himself to his young friend with grave distance.

As soon as he had seen his mother, he would set off again, and never cease searching till he had found either Ramona or her grave.

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On this page you'll find 171 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to grave, such as: dignified, dull, earnest, heavy, muted, and quiet.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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