How to use grim in a sentence

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• The party's chances in the coming election looked grim as a large portion of their voters were going to age out.From the entry age out
• I hung onto the rope like grim death.From the entry like grim death
• So is there a way out of the grim place we’re in?2024 December 9, Paul Krugman, “My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment”, in The New York Times, archived from the original…. From the entry kakistocracy
• But that is the likely outcome if the railway waits for Treasury's grim reaper to come a-calling.2021 January 13, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Make freight an equal priority”, in Rail, page 3. From the entry grim reaper
• At least until the Magistra rushed into the room, her face set in a grim scowl.2017, Kevin MacGregor, editor, The Dark Eye: Starless Sky, Ulisses Spiele, →ISBN. From the entry magistra
• Once again, those black-clad figures make a kind of grim visual poetry from the moment.2016, Keith Gray, Carl Miller, Ostrich Boys. From the entry black-clad
• It was grim and set, a person nerving up for the last of a grueling hike.2015, Elizabeth Lowell [pseudonym; Ann Maxwell], chapter 24, in Perfect Touch, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 290. From the entry nerve up
• Our part-time Defence Secretary is also on a losing wicket over grim milestones.2008 June 14, Vicki Woods, “They say milestones, but mean tombstones”, in The Daily Telegraph. From the entry on a losing wicket
• “As a friend of his, that was the most grim, boring, monovisioned part of him,” she said.2008 June 22, Allen Salkin, “It’s Not About the Bike”, in New York Times. From the entry monovisioned
• Body of Lies is set in the grim and violent world of Middle East counter-terrorism.2008 November 24, James Luxford, “REVIEW: Body Of Lies”, in entertainmentwise.com, retrieved 13 Jul 2012. From the entry company man
• The British, French and Dutch navies also practiced a grimmer form of choking.2007, Darius Rejali, “Choking”, in Torture and Democracy, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry keelhauling
• When he is really "plastered," El Caucho looks grim, but he isn't really nasty.2002, Jacques Stephen Alexis, In the Flicker of an Eyelid, page 32. From the entry bend one's elbow
• His warmasters rode behind him as an honor guard, grim and silent.2002, Jim Bishop, “Goblin King”, in Jess Lebow, editor, The Secrets of Magic, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 104. From the entry warmaster
• Americans in this year of the grim fight against the biggest Jim Crower of them all— Hitler.2001, Larry Lester, Black Baseball's National Showcase. From the entry Jim Crower
• The merchant of mistrust dismisses these words as hyperbole and remains grim, sullen, fearful.2000 October, Brennan Manning, “The Way of Trust”, in Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin’s Path to God, [San Francisco, Calif.]…. From the entry happies
• A man there was, grim his expression, just like a Thunderbird his features were frightening.1999, Andrew George, transl., Gilgamesh, section VII. From the entry thunderbird
• "Careful, Uwe," cautions my Venezuelan explorer friend, José Miguel Pérez, with a grim smile.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 535. From the entry caution
• Reflex laughs from the underlings present, though only grim smiles from the overlings.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow. From the entry overling
• After a smackless ten days that far grimmer bogey, Fear, reasserted itself.1961, Oswald Frewen, Sailor's Soliloquy, page 33. From the entry smackless
• “Never have shield-bearers so grim of face ever landed before on out shores!”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 23. From the entry shield-bearer
• The vast swamps of Southern Ontario proved a grim nightmare to the construction gangs.1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 128. From the entry bottomless
• I wondered whether I ought to speak to Brideshead, but that grim, rock-crystal mask forbade all confidence.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 5, in Brideshead Revisited, Boston: Little, Brown, page 131. From the entry rock crystal
• I crouched low and held on like grim death to a little rail near me.1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 133. From the entry like grim death
• Uncle Nat walked on in grim silence, never turning his head, for quite half a dozen paces.1919, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, The Taming of Nan, page 31. From the entry gaum
• An’ that’s how we finds him, hangin’ on like grim death, him and his little shirtie.1912 December 24, Mike Donnelly, quotee, “Negro Boy Picked Up in Tree, 100 Miles at Sea: Was Swimming When Storm Came—‘Worth Saving for He…. From the entry shirtie
• But the picture is grim in many more cities.2021 March 25, Somini Sengupta, Geneva Abdul, Manuela Andreoni, Veronica Penney, “Riders Are Abandoning Buses and Trains. That’s a Problem…. From the entry ridership
• Darnell stood grim and forbidding on his balcony.2016, Robert Barr, Measure of the Rule. From the entry temptsome
• The Busby Berkeley stylisations are grim enough, but the high school lawn-mowing has to be seen to be disbelieved.2015 September 14, Derek Malcolm, “Grease - the film that puts the pap into pop: archive, 14 September 1978”, in The Guardian. From the entry stylisations
• Put simply, cyberprep offers “a slick, clean, rosy view of the future to contrast cyberpunk's dirty, grim dystopias” (Bell 4).2014, Tanya R. Cochran, Sherry Ginn, Paul Zinder, editors, The Multiple Worlds of Fringe: Essays on the J.J. Abrams Science Fiction…. From the entry cyberprep
• Beyond the slag was a colliery with its machinery and smoking chimney, making the whole area look grim and austere.2011, Vivienne Dockerty, A Woman Undefeated, page 54. From the entry slag
• A United Nations food agency released grim video on Friday of what it said were severely malnourished North Korean children.2011 September 10 [2011 September 9], “North Korea: U.N. Says Video Shows Malnourished Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry South Hwanghae
• What is called for here is loyalty, courage, and grim determination.” ¶ “Well, peas and rice,” Little Bit says.2007, Margaret McMullan, When I Crossed No-Bob, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2009, →ISBN, page 70. From the entry peas and rice
• The garbage collector is Java's grim reaper.[2002, Patrick Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, Learning Java, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 135. From the entry garbage collection
• Suddenly I saw him, gliding weightlessly down an escalator, looking remarkably grim: the Beast before he gets to kiss Beauty.1987, Christina Hardyment, “Picking up Gold and Silver”, in Heidi’s Alp: One Family’s Search for Storybook Europe, Book Club edition, New…. From the entry weightlessly

Meaning of grim

1. adjective Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
2. adjective Rigid and unrelenting.
3. adjective Ghastly or sinister.

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Questions about grim in a sentence

How do you use grim in a sentence?

Grim is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.”

What is a short sentence with grim?

“A grim castle overshadowed the village.”

What does grim mean?

Grim means dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.