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How to use grievous in a sentence

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In 1999 he was jailed for three years and nine months for offences of robbery and grievous bodily harm.
Also in July last year, a similar police action turned violent and several vendors and two journalists sustained grievous bodily injuries.
The country's belligerent veto threats seemed to signal its willingness to force grievous splits in the Security Council.
Its offences are so grievous, so numerous, they require nothing less than this list to enumerate them.
The case comes days after a group of MPs called for road deaths and injuries to be treated as manslaughter or grievous bodily harm.
The court found him guilty of grievous bodily harm and sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment.
The overreaching buttinskies in the federal regulatory bureaucracy learned that they made a grievous error in mandating air bags in all vehicles.
Two teenage thugs chiefly responsible were caged for seven years each after admitting causing grievous bodily harm.
He further admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent, and each defendant also admitted carrying an offensive weapon in public.
He caused them to be questioned right straitly, so that their torment was very grievous.
And so the game goes on, stopping and starting, punctuated with random outbursts of grievous bodily harm.
The accused, who were all Chinese and from London, admitted various charges including grievous bodily harm, kidnap and false imprisonment.
He was given a life sentence in March this year after pleading guilty to grievous bodily harm, false imprisonment and threats to kill.
So I'm bent by such grievous tortures, painful to suffer, piteous to behold.
But I only hope that people will find it in their heart to forgive me for that grievous mistake on that occasion.
The teenagers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm with intent.
In a letter addressed to priests around the world, the pontiff said he was profoundly hurt by what he called the most grievous form of evil.
If D coshes V and he dies, D would be liable for murder as he intended to cause grievous bodily harm.
Two days later, lost on an A road as traffic whizzes past, I make a grievous error and flag down a Dalesman.
However, American neutral shipping suffered grievous losses at the hands of the Royal Navy and French privateers.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The payment of cess for maintaining soldiers was the most grievous of burdens.
It is a grievous thing to note how slovenly this part of the service is in some places.
But the effects of that grievous sickness at Jedburgh long remained with her.
Entreat them to remove the grievous burdens which they have imposed upon you, and to remunerate you for your labor.
The reversals of fortune, O Cadi, are swift and grievous, and beyond the foreknowing or advertence of men.
Another fashion in which grievous injustice to the leaseholder can be done is frequently illustrated.
That is how St. Paul describes the dissidence of dissent, as it was known to him by grievous experience.
He was touched with living compassion and was moved to free her therefrom by pity for the grievous state in which she was.
But they will eventually have to pay a grievous penalty for their concupiscence.
He charged him with several grievous acts of malversation in office, with abuses of a public trust of a great and heinous nature.
And this reduplication of the grievous mistake he had made on the field of Ligny was absolutely fatal.
She said to herself that she was rapidly developing into a fogey, and must rigorously combat the grievous tendency.
He began the great work entitled Bibliotheca Volans, the fourth section of which brought grievous trouble upon its author.
The war was a grievous matter for the city, but it furthered the Reformation.
Particularly has the air scout proved valuable in enabling commanders to execute their final orders without grievous error.
A grievous error it is to suppose that Cupid's artillery is limited to bow and arrows.
But that word is a grievous sin, and it's a deeper offence when it's a sin wilfully and presumptuously committed.
A new and most unpleasant system of menace had begun, and the intent appeared to be to do him grievous bodily harm.
Davey had been convicted of three counts of grievous bodily harm and cruelty.
Dr Death, was sentenced on July 1 to seven years' jail for the manslaughter of three patients and causing grievous bodily harm to a fourth.
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