How to Use beyond the grave in a Sentence

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  • Leave it to circus performers to entertain even from beyond the grave.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2023
  • This legislation may go some way to providing a lifeline for families beyond the grave.
    Svitlana Vaslova, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Years later, Helen returns for a homicidal revenge that finds the two women battling from beyond the grave.
    Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Tamron Hall once got a message from her late friend Prince from beyond the grave.
    Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • Those of us who love Marilyn yearn to protect her, even beyond the grave.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The group takes this as a sign that Anya is communicating with them from beyond the grave, as promised.
    Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Around the houses of the Cerén villagers lie plots of ghostly white plants, phantom corncobs and agaves from beyond the grave.
    Mary Roach, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The poodle who hosts a Japanese cooking show from beyond the grave.
    Marella Gayla, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Phariss' version of the legend has unique details about how Krueger has haunted towns and killed children from beyond the grave.
    Devon Link, USA TODAY, 12 July 2020
  • The result is a ghoulish assertion of Parker’s power over his client from beyond the grave.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 24 June 2022
  • Yankee Jim isn't the only specter, though — both Mr. and Mrs. Whaley, a young girl, and even the family dog have been known to make appearances from beyond the grave.
    Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The custom both honored the pharaoh and inflicted punishment beyond the grave.
    Byandrew Curry, science.org, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Jaeden Martell gets a message from beyond the grave in Mr. Harrigan's Phone.
    Andy Meek, BGR, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Taylor Swift's most iconic looks go from the stage to beyond the grave in this spectacular Halloween display.
    Erin Clack, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
  • For those who want the dead to stay dead, the reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent was a chilling encounter with Reaganism from beyond the grave.
    Alexander William Salter, National Review, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Inside a hospice for terminally ill teens, members of an exclusive club make a chilling pact: The first to die must send a sign from beyond the grave.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Dec. 2022
  • But the company remains worried about legal challenges from beyond the grave.
    Wired, 29 July 2022
  • As the show's final season looms on the horizon, fans have already theorized about which characters may die — and which, if any, could return from beyond the grave.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • People traveled to the annual Mass from all over the world to testify to miracles Charlene had performed from beyond the grave.
    Nathaniel Rich Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • These cakes double as Halloween decor while the skeleton serveware is actually chic enough to live beyond the grave of October 31st.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 2 June 2023
  • These cakes double as Halloween decor while the skeleton serveware is actually chic enough to live beyond the grave of October 31st.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 2 June 2023
  • Mystery and suspense are part of the allure, but perhaps even more tantalizing is the imaginative glimpse into what lies beyond the grave.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2021
  • But everyone has platitudes on deck for this mom worried about whatever is still loitering from beyond the grave.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2021
  • If a spectral sound is supposed to come from beyond the grave, what word might characterize the babble of embryonic life, the noises of beings too tenuous to out themselves from their shell?
    Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Assane is set on proving that his father's boss Hubert Pellegrini (Hervé Pierre) was behind it and exonerate him from beyond the grave.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 27 Mar. 2021
  • When Kevin mysteriously appears again, Jessica and Elena seek help from beyond the grave to get rid of him for good — but Kevin is different from other stalkers and won’t move on so easily.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Your real-life grandmother sounds very different from your grandmother in Clock, who’s this terrifying specter of a Holocaust victim stalking you from beyond the grave.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2023
  • So, consciousness was everywhere and not specific to our specific bodies but also specific people could speak to you from beyond the grave?
    Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • Based on a novella by the master of horror Stephen King, this new film follows a teen who begins receiving text messages from his old employer and friend Mr. Harrigan, seemingly from beyond the grave.
    Amanda Kondolojy, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In fact, Brigid’s intervention from beyond the grave helped builders gather materials to build a new and magnificent shrine for her at Kildare, or so wrote Cogitosus.
    Lisa Bitel, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2022

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