gruesome

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Marcia finds it “difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossible and rather gruesome to speculate on it.”

From The Wall Street Journal

That gruesome scenario is precisely what some analysts fear.

From Barron's

The film is partially based in reality; the Hayes character is inspired by Martin Donnelly, whose promising career was cut short in 1990 by a gruesome crash.

From Los Angeles Times