grave
noun
an excavation made in the earth in which to bury a dead body.
gravelike
-
a word derived from
grave.
Example Sentences
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These people also appear to have buried their dogs: One was found at a site known as Stilwell II, and four at a site called Koster, curled up in individual gravelike pits.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 5, 2018
While the commission maintained its gravelike silence, one of the commissioners, U. S. District Judge Paul John McCormick, returned to his Los Angeles home for the holidays.
From Time Magazine Archive
At two strategic places on the rim of California's San Joaquin Valley, men kneel in gravelike pits.
From Time Magazine Archive
He spent some time in watching the little orange-trees in tubs growing in the hothouse of Anatole France, and the delicate, perfect flowers clambering over the gravelike soul of Barrès.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Gilbert Cannan
The ruins of the Forum, the temples and pillars, the Arch of Titus and the gigantic arcade of the Temple of Peace, seemed to sleep in the gravelike stillness of the air.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese) Morse
