grimmer
Example Sentences
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That’s a turnaround from their much grimmer forecasts last fall.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
The numbers are even grimmer for low-income students and students of color: Only 23% of low-income children, 27% of Black children and 32% of Hispanic children were reading at grade level.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024
Other, grimmer recent headlines help to explain why.
From Slate • Jun. 17, 2024
Other stories are grimmer: In late 1941, just after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese American Citizens League held an “Americanism Rally” at Washington Hall.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
She was living alone with John in a furnished room even grimmer than the room that had been hers in Madame Williams’s apartment.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
