Grievous has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | You know Grievous Bodily Harm? Just how bad do the injuries have to be before it counts as Grievous? | |
| 2. | Mr T (19 years old) avoided conviction for murder, but was found guilty of grievous bodily harm for having intentionally caused wounds. | |
| 3. | My most grievous fault. | |
| 4. | This is a grievous mistake. | |
| 5. | His hands were clenched and his arms thrown abroad, while his lower limbs were interlocked, as though his death struggle had been a grievous one. | |
| 6. | And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land. | |
| 7. | But the Lord scourged Pharaoh and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife. | |
| 8. | And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous. | |
| 9. | And God said to him: Let it not seem grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bondwoman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hearken to her voice: for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. | |
| 10. | And the Lord did so. And there came a very grievous swarm of flies into the houses of Pharaoh and of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt: and the land was corrupted by this kind of flies. |