How to Use grim reaper in a Sentence

grim reaper

noun
  • Still, for some, the adrenaline fix is worth staring the grim reaper in the face.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 9 May 2021
  • XXXTentacion is now face-to-face with Gekyume, who looks more like the grim reaper now, in a dark room with his head bowed.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 28 June 2018
  • The app has a 3.8 rating on the Play Store and over a million downloads, which is not good enough to save it from the Google grim reaper.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2020
  • But one thing is certain: The grim reaper is waiting in Samarra.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • And those distortions don’t end when the grim reaper comes calling.
    Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Hirschhorn said as someone dressed like the grim reaper appeared to collect the puppies.
    Matthew Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Some experts think at least a few of us—the super-agers—will continue to stave off the grim reaper for longer and longer.
    Amanda Onion, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Gaiman's grim reaper eschewed a cloak and scythe for a black tank top and a spunky attitude — inspiring many young goths in the process.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Many hit men and teens worship La Santa Muerte, the cult of death represented by a grim reaper.
    David Luhnow, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • Simpson’s chest ink featured a skull and crossbones line, with the grim reaper scythe’s underneath.
    Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2019
  • That date has sat on our calendar like a grim reaper lurking outside the window.
    Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2018
  • Folks can come face-to-face with the grim reaper (whose side gig, spookily, involves a ride-share hearse) and an upright white gator wearing a top hat.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Wayne Cassell dressed in a hooded black cloak, covered his face with black cloth and carried a scythe to complete a grim reaper costume.
    Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Soon after, the survivors of the freak accident realize the grim reaper is coming for them in this horror film.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 12 Jan. 2023
  • With fierce dragons, grim reapers, and characters like the Minions and Snoopy, there's an option for every vibe from scary to silly.
    Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 7 Aug. 2018
  • One shows a smiling grim reaper, another displays the outside of a haunted house, and one even boasts a sketch of Count Dracula.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 7 Oct. 2018
  • From its perch, Spirit’s mascot — a grim reaper, fittingly enough — grins down upon Portage Park.
    Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2021
  • That hooded figure lingers like the grim reaper around crime scenes, eerily aware not only of what’s befallen the characters but what’s about to.
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2020
  • There’s a sheet-metal figure of the grim reaper that stands on a highway in the mountains just south of Mulegé, about halfway down the Baja Peninsula’s eastern coastline.
    Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The car has an air-ride suspension, a custom wood interior, a custom grim reaper sickle axe parking brake and a set of spoke wheels.
    Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 13 Jan. 2020
  • Concomitantly humans are far less likely to see themselves as helpless against the grim reaper.
    The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • But Sale just had the worst season of his career, got shut down for the second straight August/September, and is waiting to be reevaluated by the grim reaper of big league elbows.
    Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Dream's sister Death, who eschews the grim reaper scythe in favor a goth girl wardrobe, has been a pop culture legend for decades, but Kirby Howell-Baptiste managed to put her own spin on the icon.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Still, the villain of the episode is not the canine grim reaper, but Kimber, who is hung up on Tully’s suspicious answers about her mother during their interview.
    Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Without warning, the most promising artistic voices were being tapped on the shoulder, seemingly at random, by a grim reaper.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2022
  • CinemaCon comes amid signs that investors are starting to sour a bit on the streaming business, which has been positioned as both the grim reaper and the savior of movies, depending on who’s talking.
    Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The Great War was raging, revolutionary fervor building, the grim reaper never busier.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Mulligan stars as Cassie, a twentysomething former medical student who moonlights as the good guy grim reaper.
    Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Driscoll himself is sometimes hired to entertain at birthday parties dressed as the grim reaper, toting a puppet decked out in similar attire.
    Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022
  • On the southern end of Gatorland are more photo opportunities, including a headless horseman, a way to look like a Gatorlandized grim reaper and an eerie set of jack-o’-lanterns.
    Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2021

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