Gravely in example sentence

However, when I was brought back by the mob to the mercer's shop, the master of the house said freely that I was not the woman that was in his shop, and would have let me go immediately; but another fellow said gravely, 'Pray stay till Mr. ----' (meaning the journeyman) 'comes back, for he knows her.'

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In the end, 300 people were gravely wounded and over 172 men, women and children lost their lives that day.

Our mental health, our emotional well-being are so gravely affected because the threat of violence is experienced neurobiologically as violence.

But the reason the email came was that Jake, at age 32, the horse, had become gravely ill and had to be put down, and this is what was going on.

There's a deepfake showing one of the major party candidates gravely sick.

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