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How to use graver in a sentence

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They are the kind of thing that lead us to react in ways which are far graver than the damage they do.
It's easy enough to draw a curved line with a pen or on an engraving plate with a graver.
And notwithstanding the emerging tragedy in Syria, the graver regional threat remains Iran and its nuclear ambitions.
The impact on growth and employment is thus much graver than was realised only a short time ago.
Beyond mere molestation, however, looms the graver threat of jungle fever.
Indeed the potentially fatal consequences are far more invidious and graver than many other actions prohibited by the Criminal Code.
Disrespecting the Bing basically meant copping to an insignificant offense in order to avoid taking responsibility for, or admitting to, a far graver one.
Lines are cut into a metal plate using a tool called burin or graver.
It isn't even a case of the reporter's having fabricated or plagiarized, which are graver wrongs than credulousness, and far harder to fathom.
The tonal areas were then gradually developed with tiny flick dots made with the curved stipple graver.
But the wiser voices in the movement know that, now, they face much graver problems than semantics.
It is my opinion that your part in the affair is only a curtain-raiser to graver things.
She held that returning the children against their will would be a graver interference with their rights than failing to do so would be with the rights of the father.
Other judges recounted still graver misdemeanours, such as riot police and plainclothes thugs beating off opposition voters, and police summarily closing polling stations.
The chances were that, sooner or later, such greenness would inevitably lead to a graver disaster.
The graver, in ploughing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs.
In fact, an overdependence on the sight gag ultimately proves to be their undoing, overshadowing the graver aspects of the painter's chosen subjects.
It's a culinary faux pas graver than eating pudding with your soup spoon.
Examples from Classical Literature
If something graver could but be sifted out from all these journals and letters of frank confession, by the explainer!
Christine, readjusting her life to new conditions, was graver, more thoughtful.
There were graver reasons, too, against his returning to that mode of life.
There was some laughing at the parturient mountain and the still-born mouse, but a graver cheerfulness was the reigning emotion.
But you have grown self-willed and self-opinionated of late, and I must say, you couldn't have a graver fault!
And the faith in the malleability of glass has had its martyrology as well as faith in graver things.
A shiver passed through Virginia and left her stiller and graver than before.
Lucretius, in his vituperation, is graver and more dignified than Alighieri.
There is, however, a still graver and quite insuperable distinction between the parallactic path and the aberrational path.
His face had fallen into graver lines, his eyes seemed fixed with a curious introspective steadiness on a huge calendar which hung from the wall.
Had the idle theatrical scheme, now that it was all over, graver results to answer for than a mischievous waste of time?
Her resolve, however, had been taken, and it seemed vacillating even to childishness to abandon it now, unless for graver reasons.
The situation was much graver than Bienville seemed to apprehend.
In the graver hours of activity and industry, sobriety may be proper.
This was grave news, but it was followed in a few days by graver.
Children, with bright faces, tripped merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes.
Was the child's indisposition graver than she had led Ruth to suppose?
If a player is cautioned that does not exempt him from further sanction if a graver offence later comes to light on TV evidence.
He looked at me more directly, and the expression of his face, graver now, struck me as the most beautiful I had ever found in it.
The character of Adeimantus is deeper and graver, and the profounder objections are commonly put into his mouth.
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