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    Use "grim" in a sentence

    grim example sentences

    grim


    1. Even his hollow-eyed glare of grim determination showed macho


    2. ’ I responded with a grim smile


    3. Travis gave his mother a grim look and walked out into the night


    4. knot of grim faced mothers


    5. Sure it could have been something less grim that brought us together, but Jesus, you have to take the positives where you can find them, don't you?


    6. Travis coughed and gave a grim laugh


    7. anything other than grim resignation, but he saw nothing there that would comfort


    8. MacKenzie searched his old friend’s face for a sign, for a token that suggested anything other than grim resignation, but he saw nothing there that would comfort him


    9. They hadn't gone away, but she was able to get up and face a day with hope and purpose instead of grim determination


    10. He was shocked by the grim and determined tone of her voice

    11. With a grim face the colonel wrote that on her virtual notepad which was fully rendered as a flip-over spiral-bound paper one from a twentieth century cop show


    12. Ultimately, facing the reality of time’s drip southwards, and the sharp scythe wielded by the grim reaper of domesticated animals, the couple found solace in their passionate love for one another


    13. Every report sounded more grim than the one before so he wondered if there was anything to go back to


    14. There is a grim set to his mouth which I have never seen before


    15. that the grim portraits of old ancestral parsons and even the


    16. “You look grim,” Ava said as she approached


    17. She halted her men from the grim task they were performing and questioned the young boy


    18. shocked by the grim and determined tone of her voice


    19. As I relate her experiences in Italy, his expression grows decidedly grim


    20. She had a rather grim expression, and her

    21. After giving them a very grim choice, they gave up without a fight


    22. by the grim reaper of domesticated animals, the couple found


    23. Could he use the office? He's been in conference with the Brothers Grim ever since


    24. A grim expression flits across his face for an instant


    25. He hung on for grim death


    26. ‘Kev … what’s the matter?’ Angie asked, taking in his grim expression


    27. The bar looks like a waiting room for the terminally depressed, somewhere that the Grim Reaper might park his latest charges while he goes off to collect the rest of the damned


    28. She thinks of films full of grim heroines, in particular Ripley and the alien mother, sees herself as the little girl screaming in the lift


    29. It made grim reading


    30. him with a grim stare

    31. When Toad found himself in a dank and noisy dungeon, and knew that all the grim darkness of a medieval fortress lay between him and the outer world of sunshine and well-metalled high roads where he had lately been so happy, carrying himself as if he had bought up every road in England, he flung himself at full length on the floor, and shed bitter tears, and abandoned himself to dark despair


    32. ) `Stupid animal that I was' (he said), `now I must sit in this dungeon, till people who were proud to say they knew me, have forgotten the very name of Toad! O wise old Badger!' (he said), `O clever, intelligent Rat and sensible Mole! What sound judgments, what a knowledge of men and matters you have! O unhappy and lost Toad!' With cries such as these he passed his days and nights for several weeks, refusing his meals or snacks, though the grim and ancient jailer, knowing that Toad was rich, often pointed out that many comforts, and indeed luxuries, could be sent in-- at a price--from outside


    33. "Thanks, Grim," Alec said, his voice terse


    34. “Sure, I'll tell her, but if I were you, Grim, I wouldn't force the matter


    35. He winked and a little note appeared neatly written, 'Dear Cook, Please use these sample pans and scrub them regularly, signed Magistrate Grim


    36. She had thought they had left during the early moments of the battle, when the outcome immediately turned grim


    37. While pondering her own chances -- which seemed as grim -- Nathalia heard a thunderous roar, and suddenly, the light of Minos -- the very moon itself -- was eclipsed by a mountainous form


    38. He must have sensed her reply was grim, for the darkness tightened around him


    39. Instead of bursting into celebration at the home-coming of their allies, the gathering watched their grim debarment in silence


    40. In the grim aura that

    41. The men returned that evening, looking grim


    42. She wished that the poem was depicting an exaggeration of Alataria's true current state, yet from everything she had learned so far, she tended to believe that the poem pictured the actual, grim reality of the country


    43. "Look, I know that things look a bit grim in this country, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up—"


    44. They all appeared grim


    45. The driver walked over to look at Penelope’s face and once he did, he shot Mercer with a very grim glance


    46. But if you failed to notice the snake — mortal, or at least grim, consequences


    47. All I know is what I heard and what I can surmise by reading very grim Imperial faces


    48. And as she continued taking the interim time to read and try to research further, the very grim urgency that she had observed in Maro’s voice and demea


    49. The thief had been able to read no lack of grim testimony in the veteran’s voice as well as his face, which had been hewn with time and all manner of stresses


    50. Sebastian nodded, his face grim












































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    Synonyms for "grim"

    ghastly grim grisly gruesome macabre sick blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy sorry depressed dispirited down down in the mouth downcast downhearted low low-spirited inexorable relentless stern unappeasable unforgiving unrelenting dour forbidding black mordant dire appalling frightful hideous implacable uncompromising unyielding harsh severe bleak hard

    "grim" definitions

    not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty


    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror


    harshly ironic or sinister


    harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance


    filled with melancholy and despondency


    causing dejection