How to Use gruesome in a Sentence

gruesome

adjective

• The police report described the scene in gruesome detail.
• Hooper, an Austin native, filmed some of the more gruesome scenes in the house.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The gruesome crash occurred on the the last day of school for New York City students.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
• The 81-minute premiere sets the tone with a series of rather gruesome deaths.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• The complaint lays out part of the timeline leading up to the gruesome find.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
• Here’s a description, from IMDb.com, of one of the gruesome scenes.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• Of course, there’s one team that doesn’t belong on this gruesome list.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• Everyone says, the show is scary, and there are some gruesome bits.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Even the pictures are gruesome: A side-shot of a face so bloated with death it’s gone flat.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• The gruesome scene evoked outrage from city and state leaders.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• House of the Dragon is big, ridiculous TV at its best and most gruesome.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• You will be hooked as this novel gets to truth of this gruesome murder.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• The creators made the destruction of the cruise ship by nanofibers appalling and gruesome.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
• It’s one of the seafood industry’s most gruesome hunts.
  — Joshua Goodman, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
• The crime scene inside the home was gruesome and disturbing.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
• In classic Tarantino-style, the path to free his enslaved wife is soaked in blood, guts, and some of the most gruesome scenes on film.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• In a gruesome series of events, the orcas ate the tongue of their victim and lifted its corpse from the sea floor for the whole group to feast on.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2024
• Give us a massacre almost as epic and gruesome as the one that took place when Victor was a kid.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
• By the end of the gruesome rampage, two other victims were also dead.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• And then there’s a gruesome memory of an irate snake fighting one of our cats, Fudge.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• Oh, there were so many more people that died in other gruesome ways.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2023
• Those aboard gathered along the railing to gawk at the gruesome diversion.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• At the center of the gruesome assembly hangs a white man with a full beard and long brown locks — that must be Jesus of Nazareth, right?
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
• The gruesome murders left the small town of Moscow, Idaho, deeply shaken, as the killer remained on the loose for weeks.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 5 Jan. 2023
• The gruesome death of his parents at the hands of Count of Torresnegras’ troops forces him and his new friend to flee to the nearby woods.
  — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 21 July 2022
• The gruesome details of Wynter's killing sparked fierce outcry throughout the state.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2023
• But in light of the gruesome attacks, many of which have happened to children, some have attempted to challenge the law.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
• The movie’s big set piece is an extended sexting scene that’s avert-your-eyes gruesome.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• Surratt, played by theater actress Victoria Sova, recounted gruesome tales of deaths that took place in and around the country's most vaunted and historic sites.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
• Although the trial has revealed a wealth of new information surrounding the case, one aspect remains unclear: the motive behind the gruesome crime.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024