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"Grim" in a Sentence (21 examples)
From the doctor's grim expression, it was clear he had somber news for the patient.
Marcia looked grim when I told her the story.
That evening tea was partaken of in a grim silence.
It's a grim world.
The outlook is grim.
The fireman's face was grim when he came out of the burning house.
In this line of work, if you make a grim face the customers won't come.
Tom is grim.
Don't look so grim.
"It's war," said the Grim Reaper and put his scythe aside to get onto the combine harvester.
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Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).
Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest was a grim reminder that a fresh approach needed to stabilise the climate and prevent ecosystems from declining to a point of no return, with dire consequences for humanity.
It's been a grim start to the year.
His grim determination enabled him to win.
A grim castle overshadowed the village.
There was, I thought, a trace of very profound and very genuine irony in the timbre—not the flashy, meaninglessly jaunty pseudo-irony of the callow "sophisticate," which Derby had habitually affected, but something grim, basic, pervasive and potentially evil.
In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; […]
You got a new girl and she looks choong (Choong) But you didn't know your girl was a grim […] Your girl she's a grim, I wouldn't have no grim as my ting
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