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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The rainstorms this week offered more grim reminders of those costs.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
• But the rush of frightened students pouring out of Snyder Hall revealed the grim truth.
  — Will Lanzoni, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2023
• The capsule itself, a grim reminder of the event, remained beneath the Atlantic Ocean for 38 years.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2023
• There is some reason to be wary of these grim predictions.
  — Rachel M. Cohen, Vox, 30 July 2024
• Overall, the analysis paints a grim picture of how much catching up the US has to do.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2023
• The initial step is to remove any grim, fingerprints, and smudges from the surface.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 20 Mar. 2023
• In Oregon and around the U.S., there was a grim sense that our systems were insufficient to cope with the threat of fentanyl.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
• That grim potential future hasn't been enough to draw them into the protests.
  — Tia Goldenberg, ajc, 30 Mar. 2023
• While in jail, Dean bonds with Zoro, a grim and mysterious teenage prisoner serving time for murder.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2024
• But the prospect for substantive deliverables looked grim.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024