How to Use grim in a Sentence

grim

adjective

• He paints a grim picture of the prospects for peace.
• His face looked grim, and we knew his news wouldn't be good.
• Hikers made a grim discovery when they came across a dead body in the woods.
• The accident serves as a grim reminder of the dangers of drinking and driving.
• The prognosis is grim—doctors do not expect her to live longer than six months.
• In Berlin, the winter sky is screwed on so tight that all the world beneath becomes dark and gray and grim.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2024
• Today, his resting face is grim; his demeanor, anxious and withdrawn.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
• The article paints a grim picture of Horizon’s uptake thus far.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• Overall, the analysis paints a grim picture of how much catching up the US has to do.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
• Helene death toll surpasses grim milestone as search for survivors continues.
  — Fox News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Overcoming the shock and accepting the grim new reality would be key to their country’s defense.
  — Matt Surman Anushka Patil Juston Jones Julie Ho Julie Ho Julie Ho Monika Pronczuk Emile Ducke Andrea Kannapell The New York Times Monika Pronczuk Anushka Patil Farnaz Fassihi Andrea Kannapell Carlotta Gall Cassandra Vinograd Cassandra Vinograd Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Maya King Michael D. Shear Marc Santora Michael D. Shear Cassandra Vinograd Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi Farna, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
• The prognosis had been grim, but after four months of treatment, the former president defied tough odds to emerge cancer-free.
  — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• Exit polls are equally as grim as audiences express their unhappiness with the sequel.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2024
• For example, Stitch Fix and Carvana thrived during the pandemic and now face a grim outlook.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• The tense hour ends on a starkly grim and unsettling note, in contrast to the show's tendency toward last-minute uplift and courtroom speechifying.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 20 Jan. 2023
• In Phillips’s new film, however, their entanglement is rewritten to be even more grim and, frankly, flat (especially Quinn’s arc), but with a lot more singing.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 4 Oct. 2024
• The same grim milestone was reached on Dec. 29 of last year.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• Having learned what the children had done, the adults were grim.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
• The grim news comes despite other signs of hope at the region’s reefs.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 8 Oct. 2023
• But his face, on this overcast day on the picket line, was grim.
  — Anonymous, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
• With the Queen taking stock, so does the series -- and the verdict is both funny and grim.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
• On my 21st birthday, my father walked me down the aisle, his mouth set in a grim line.
  — Elizabeth Bobrick, New York Times, 4 May 2024
• It’s been a rough few months here and the outlook continues to be grim.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• But keep in mind, in this grim, brutal, bear of a season, the Dodgers still have the second-best record in the NL.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2024
• The year 2023 was pretty grim at times, but the bright spots were radiant with hope.
  — Linda McNamar, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Enlarge / Fire TVs give Alexa hope, but the future still feels grim.
  — Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2023
• The five-year survival rate for stage 4 colon cancer, at 13%, is grim, but the more time passed, the more his odds improved.
  — Mara Buchbinder, STAT, 29 Oct. 2023
• Marcon, 50, can’t help but mark that grim day in his mind every year.
  — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• Ahead of the announcement, the mood inside Vice Media was grim.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
• The scene on Friday was grim as SVB clients tried to figure out what the bank’s abrupt closure meant for them.
  — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024