How to Use grisly in a Sentence

grisly

adjective

• The jurors saw grisly photos of the crime scene.
• These days, fans, for the most part, relish the grisly show from their cars.
  — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
• Guests gorged on fine food and champagne, unaware of the grisly scenes that unfolded two stories above.
  — Gulnaz Khan, National Geographic, 31 Oct. 2020
• Viewers must make decisions and play the 3 games in order for Cam to survive but one wrong choice could lead to a grisly end.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2024
• Police opened them when the train arrived at its destination, discovering the grisly crime.
  — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2024
• The story begins on a plantation, where the brutal overseers carry out grisly punishments against those tilling the fields.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 17 Sep. 2020
• The attack comes on the heels of the grisly murder of a French history teacher on October 16.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Oct. 2020
• With grisly honesty, Sendak homed in on an important truth about horror—scary stories empower children to face the terror that lurks in the real world.
  — Kate Cray, The Atlantic, 23 Oct. 2020
• The town has a trailer park and a shuttered strip club that was the scene of a grisly killing in 2008.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Dec. 2021
• The group also walked by a convenience store that was the site of a grisly killing in 2018.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Reznor later took the door with him as a grisly souvenir.
  — Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
• Police made the grisly discovery near a trash bin at the back of the motel.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2022
• There was fear among fans that Kim Wexler, Jimmy’s ex-wife, would see a grisly end.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
• The grisly display led at least one passerby to call 911.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2021
• The males that don’t launch themselves out of their lover’s embrace in time suffer a grisly fate.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
• Floyd’s grisly death sparked Black Lives Matter protests around the country and world.
  — Donna Owens, Essence, 13 Apr. 2021
• In the late 1990s, on one of their earliest tours, the Drive-By Truckers nearly met a grisly fate.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 28 June 2022
• When the time comes, demons barrel onto Earth to mete out a grisly death sentence.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 27 Nov. 2021
• The families of the victims never saw the grisly photos.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• But, what lurks at the heart of that grisly crime might not be the season’s most exciting surprise.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 28 June 2022
• The moment was inspired by one of Hanawalt’s grisly dreams, in which a jaguar ate her mailman’s face off.
  — The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2021
• A couple looking for a home to rent made the grisly discovery.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• The circumstances strongly suggest a link among the grisly deaths.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
• Gordon said her voice had ordered him to commit the grisly act.
  — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
• Daemon sees the end of the dragons alongside a grisly battle on the lakeshore, then falls forward into the depths of the lake himself.
  — Alexis Nedd, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2024
• And TikTok sleuths tried to solve some grisly killings but wound up sparking an online witch hunt.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• According to the bed and breakfast’s website, the house is largely unchanged from the time of the grisly murders.
  — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2021
• A few hours later, a dog walker stumbled on the grisly remains, and police followed a trail of blood back to the crime scene.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 11 May 2022
• Lucy joins up with the Ghoul/Cooper on his hunt for Hank, and Maximus survives a grisly bullet wound.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
• The grisly aftermath: throngs of dead fish lining the river bank.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 15 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024