gruesome
Example Sentences
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But she suffered a gruesome fracture of her wrist in late 2024, then crashed heavily at the end of a World Cup race in Georgia in March last year.
From Barron's
Mr. Green grinned and let out a cheerful snort, which seemed at odds with his gruesome appearance.
From Literature
At its peak, there were over 6,000 Shakers, joining Ann in rebuking the gruesome, incalculable evils of war and preaching moral generosity.
From Salon
The collapse that followed the war turned multinational empires into nation-states and began the “gruesome death” of Central European civilization.
Marcia finds it “difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossible and rather gruesome to speculate on it.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
