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Example sentences for "grim"

Lexicographically close words:
griller; grilles; grilling; grills; grilse; grimace; grimaced; grimaces; grimacing; grime
  1. Nowhere here," he answered with a grim twist to the corner of his mouth, his eyes half-closing with sulky meaning.

  2. With grim face Ingolby stood over the begrimed figure.

  3. But he sees the human heart Of God meanwhile, and in God's hand has weighed Your squeamish and emasculate crusade Against the grim dominion of his art.

  4. He knows more about it," was the somewhat grim response, "than any other man breathing.

  5. Life has its grim and terrible side," he declared, "but underlying it all there is a sense of justice which has made us humans frame laws and institute a code of punishment.

  6. Mr. Johnson, as he walked down the hill from the Castle, glanced more than once at the grim jail with its fortress-like walls and bare windows.

  7. Every time he looked, he fancied that he discovered some fresh horror in that grim yet superbly bestial face.

  8. That's about the only treasure I did bring home," was the somewhat grim reply.

  9. As they rounded the point the warships swung into view, grim and forbidding, with the ugly strength of bulldogs.

  10. Jonah recognized them with a grim smile, but he had taken their work, glad of something to do, although he would never see the colour of their money.

  11. And they stood together, the grim tower and the grey church, for a symbol of immemorial things--a stronghold and a refuge.

  12. Grim poverty and mutual hatred had killed all that.

  13. With a wave of his hand he swept the clubhouse into a pine-crowned gorge, turning the waiters into a grim posse, and each listener into a blood-stained fugitive, climbing with torn fingers upon the ensanguined rocks.

  14. The miller looked at her with his usual grim smile.

  15. Wet to the skin, the ground one vast meadow of slush, the combatants still held on with grim tenacity, each side watching lynx-eyed, each being now almost mad with an insatiable and ferocious desire for victory.

  16. Another vivid memory of this period concerns his first realization of the grim mystery of death.

  17. The end of the war had left the South a scene of destruction and desolation, and many men who had fought bravely and well found it hard to reconcile themselves to the grim task of reconstruction.

  18. Grim and uncompromising as the description reads, it was typical of the equipment in those remote days of the telegraph at the close of the war.

  19. Many of them are aimed at gas, and there are several grim summaries of death and fires due to gas-leaks or explosions.

  20. But it is not to be inferred that the atmosphere of grim determination and persistent pursuit of the new invention characteristic of this period made life a burden to the small family of laborers associated with Edison.

  21. They had soon through the bushes seen the witch in the moonshine; she seemed to dig, and spake in some strange tongue the while, whereupon the grim arch-fiend suddenly appeared, and fell upon her neck.

  22. It is not hard to guess how my heart was wrung when I saw my poor child lying on her bed of moss struggling with grim hunger.

  23. The humours of Grim the collier are introduced by Ulpian Fulwell into his morality, Like Will to Like (1561).

  24. The grim face of the spinster betrayed a great deal of pleasure and a great deal of pathos also.

  25. Coming out again, the grim and forbidding doctor ordered Jimmie into his car, and oh, what a dressing-down he did give him!

  26. That was a line of talk the men were ready for, and the little machinist rejoiced to see the grim look that came upon their faces.

  27. His grim old father's hair turned grey in a few weeks; and while he went on to fill his contracts with the Russian government, all men knew that his heart was eaten out with grief and rage and shame.

  28. But there was a difference now; he was no longer a blind and helpless victim of a false economic system, but a revolutionist, fully class-conscious, trained in a grim school.

  29. They had nightsticks in their hands, and grim resolution in their faces; they cried, "Stand back!

  30. III So day by day Jimmie lived with the idea of killing, confronting the grim and ferocious face of war.

  31. He lifted a letter from the table beside him and handed it to Clifford with a grim smile on his face.

  32. This last sentence was proved by subsequent events to be a touch of wholly unconscious but very grim humor.

  33. One effigy alone is minus this grim feature, as it represents the lady in whose lifetime the monument was erected.

  34. Beneath it, in grim contrast, lurks a series of dark, windowless dungeons.

  35. Across the straits rises the broad bulk of Ramsey Island: smooth and tame enough on this side, but presenting to the western ocean a grim array of tall inaccessible cliffs and gloomy caverns, the haunt of seals and sea-fowl innumerable.

  36. The gray walls of the grim old castle, crowning the low, steep hill we have just descended, are reflected in the placid stream at our feet.

  37. How forbidding are the acanthus scrolls, how grim the skulls and cross-bones on these portals!

  38. Here, too, if more ancient tradition does not err, were stretched the corpses of twenty-seven members of the same great house at the end of one of their grim combats.

  39. Who can tell what Pagan rites were half sanctified by their association with that season, or how much of our cheerfulness belonged to Heathen orgies and the banquets of grim warlike gods?

  40. The white-haired old women, plying their spindle or distaff, or meditating in grim solitude, sit with the sinister set features of Fates by their doorways.

  41. Many and many a grim beast and hideous head has he hidden among vine-leaves and trellis-work upon the porches.

  42. Then in that grim night God sent unseasonable frost, and froze The stream of holy Strymon.

  43. I saw the hard ghastly face behind the window soften, and light up with gratified pride--I saw the head with the grim black cap bend ceremoniously in return.

  44. In fact, this funny little image was the “crack” god of the island; lording it over all the wooden lubbers who looked so grim and dreadful; its name was Moa Artua.

  45. But in punishment of his neglect, he is condemned to wander for a time in search of happiness with the now-awakened Beauty, pursued by the relentless Ogress and her servant, Grim Gribber.

  46. March, as we all know, is the eldest daughter of Winter, and bitterly like her grim sire.

  47. It produces, therefore, freedom even to democracy in politics, protestantism even to rationalism in religion, and grim perseverance even to the bitter end in war.

  48. Old friends I had a-many--kindly and grim Familiars, cronies quaint And goblin!


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grim" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.