grim
Example Sentences
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But it also attracted scores of photographers, visual artists, taggers and scene kids who documented the unruly energy brimming over these grim industrial landscapes, lighted up with flames and police chopper spotlights.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Even given the grim mortality statistics of their day, some of the Founders suffered disproportionately from family health challenges, and these personal tragedies likely made them receptive to medical innovations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
The selloff gathered pace in February when the company issued a grim sales outlook for 2026.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
On the grim evidence that unfolded in the Wearside sunshine, it looks like they are.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
He looked grim and tired, for his eyes were burning, there was an air of such impersonal cruelty about him that despite myself I shivered.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
Vocabulary lists containing grim
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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