Example Sentences

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"His sobriety, his graveness, his hallowedness, is so foreign to our modern sensibilities — but that's the point. That is the precise point."

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2022

Rob Pelinka, his salt-and-pepper stubble conferring an additional shade of graveness, wore it Monday as he talked about the first big decision of the Lakers’ offseason — the firing of coach Frank Vogel.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2022

“The graveness of the visage,” The Sydney Gazette wrote in 1803, “would seem to indicate a more than ordinary portion of animal sagacity.”

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2020

I couldn’t help but like the graveness of Bloom’s intro.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2019

She saw he was not smiling and his graveness gave her a sense of power.

From Lister's Great Adventure by Bindloss, Harold