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

Flashbacks were shot with Fuji film stock, which produced bright, vivid pastels, and the present was captured with cold, blue Kodak film, made grimmer by desaturating the codec.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025

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

And then we went to 7-Building’s opposite, the Special Housing Unit, a two-story structure that housed sixty inmates; it was larger and grimmer than the one at Coxsackie.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover