Grave has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | Confucius said: "To see the dead person to his grave with the thought that he is unmistakably dead is inhuman and not something one should do. To see the dead person to his grave with the thought that he is still alive is unwise and also not something one should do." | |
| 2. | It is true that there are some people even so utterly without imagination that they cannot take a joke; such as that grave man of Scotland who was at last plainly told by a funny friend quite out of patience, “Why, you wouldn’t take a joke if it were fired at you out of a cannon!” “Sir,” replied the Scot, with sound reasoning and grave thought, “Sir, you are absurd. You cannot fire a joke out of a cannon!” | |
| 3. | They threw up over his grave a large pile of earth, round which they planted several trees, and upon these they hung the first-fruits of their autumnal labours. Then they poured upon the grave libations of milk and juice pressed from the grapes, and broke many pastoral pipes. | |
| 4. | The boy dug a grave for his dog that had died. | |
| 5. | The boy dug a grave for his dead pet. | |
| 6. | The judge was grave and forbidding. | |
| 7. | Some Americans have grave debts. | |
| 8. | The atomic bomb is a grave threat to mankind. | |
| 9. | They set up a tombstone over the grave overlooking the harbor. | |
| 10. | The international situation is becoming grave. |