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How to use Grim in a sentence

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Crucially, no-one else had died in Emmerdale over Christmas so it was odds-on the Grim Reaper was sharpening his scythe for someone come the turn of New Year.
Here I am, just over sixty, and I feel like the Grim Reaper already has me notched on his stick.
It was the Grim Reaper, but he was not as wild or demonic as she had once fancied him to be.
Grim stayed unmoving as the wall closed behind him, a great chill had overtaken him but he turned to her room and took a step.
One cornball had parked his 1969 Olds 442 muscle car, complete with a stuffed Grim Reaper figure in the front passenger seat, outside the museum.
Grim and tearless, he is biting the bullet, squaring his jaw and stiffening his backbone, the way people who've lived through war always do.
Part Grim Reaper, part angel, this deathly saint had few followers, and they mostly worshipped in private.
Grim skulls taunt Mother Superior's mind, while a severely cowled Mary Magdalene in green eye shadow and come-hither lipstick holds court over a writhing succubus.
I suppose the warning signs were out when Steve was diagnosed with the Big C, but he's beat a number of other physical close calls with the Grim Reaper.
Even if this Alexander fellow had saved her from the shady Grim character, she doubted that he would have withheld information from the great Sir Marcus Grigsby.
In modern times, only a few great writers have been reprieved by the Grim Reaper.
Nate Silver meets the Grim Reaper, without all the confusing actuarial tables.
And once we work that out, as we age, we might even be able to work a stalemate with the Grim Reaper himself.
Our feeble attempts to push back the Grim Reaper only sharpen its cruel bite, not dull it.
I remember how I'd sit in class back in grade school, drawing rad pictures of the Grim Reaper sweeping down and stealing the souls of all he touched.
Clara's cultural cache soon gave way to Betty Boop, the iconic cartoon flapper created partly in her image by animator Grim Natwick.
Haggle, harangue and be sassy and you'll walk away with a deal that's good enough to protect you from the scythe of Grim Depreciator.
No mean feat, that, these days where in the wake of Denis Donoghue's Grim Reader and French demolitionists obfuscatory cant is running rampant.
I had good, consistent results with Wasp Jack-Hammer, Tru-Fire Switch Blade, Grim Reaper, Rage and Spitfire.
Following the Wars of Independence, Galloway became the fief of Archibald the Grim, Earl of Douglas and his heirs.
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Grim though the economic spur may be, some scientists see a slim silver lining in the sudden newsiness of laughably large numbers.
However, Ketill was a common name in Norse societies, as were names like Gurim and Grim.
According to Grim, Becket learned much from Richer, who was later a signatory of the Constitutions of Clarendon against Thomas.
Grim and gloomy Protestantism has never been exactly a bundle of laughs but lately humour in the church, particularly the evangelical wing, seems to be undergoing a revival.
Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries, then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.
The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.
In all the grim news of the past couple of weeks the Special Olympics stood out as an example of the good that is in the world.
Small is currently ranked 37 in the world, a grim reminder of just how far he has slipped down the rankings.
He wears such an infectious smile all the time that one finds it difficult to associate him with a subject as grim as mental health.
Alice, the head nurse, wore her usual grim expression and young Lily stood at the foot of the bed with wide, expectant eyes.
Companies must act responsibly and tell the truth to avoid their shareholders being added to the list of victims in this grim tale.
The city had promised those who worked there that they would get other jobs once that grim task ended.
After firefighters put out the flames they made a standard check of the vehicle and made the grim discovery.
I met them in front of the tennis courts by the jumble of parked bicycles as we had decided only to find them all wearing grim faces and frowns.
Determined to escape this grim prospect, she jumps a bus to Sydney in the hope of rejoining her estranged father.
Junichi watched as Murasaki chided her master with a grim expression on her face and her tone was gently admonitory.
The news of widespread rain in the region may bring some cheer to the grim faces of farmers.
My teammates whooped and yelled their agreement, and we all looked towards our coach, who was still looking grim and worried.
Up here in the frozen North it is grim, nothing but cloth caps, whippets and warm beer.
A strange whimsy makes a grim memory of smoke and fog no less grim but perhaps more haunting.
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Though her subject matter is grim, Turke approaches it with whimsy and much humour.
Visitors to the Castle Museum will be able to discover more about the building's grim past centuries ago when it served as a debtors' prison.
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 results reflected the change that has come over Indian morale and training since the grim days of 1962, when the Chinese walked all over them.
His focus on the grim and the disturbing is beautiful, and becomes rhythmic, atmospheric, and addictive.
Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.
This is only made that much worse by the grim statistics we augmented on Friday.
Who can say where the bloodbath, the spiraling destruction, the grim tornado that strews cadavers in its wake could end?
His grim personal experience gave him the bona fides not to look soft on crime.
Fingering the mesh netting that allows a woman wearing a burka to see, she looked grim.
His face looked grim, and we knew his news wouldn't be good.
The grim events that surround the early use of chlorine gas have become a staple of horrifying war stories.
The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
Amid grim alternatives, clooney helped remind us all that one man still can make a difference.
Already the grim images of the war have become jumbled in my mind.
The outskirts of the city became a grim industrial wasteland.
The grim discovery of a skeleton in a hollow wych-elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire, has been the subject of numerous investigations.
The Busby Berkeley stylisations are grim enough, but the high school lawn-mowing has to be seen to be disbelieved.
There are no winning hands, just a grim deck full of aces of spades.
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Reflex laughs from the underlings present, though only grim smiles from the overlings.
Our part-time Defence Secretary is also on a losing wicket over grim milestones.
The Lords regarded the panels as too grim and disturbing and, in 1928, refused to accept them.
Four years have passed since the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the grim legacy of the Soviet catastrophe is still unfolding.
Before him sat the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and ratsbane.
No, not what you'd call your standard laugh-a-thons. But not too grim, I hope.
Drake's men saw weathered and bleached skeletons on the grim Spanish gibbets.
Susan shook her head and went away in grim silence to re-open a parcel she had sewed up for Jem and slip in a fine tooth comb.
Bad, he doubtless was. But when he tried to run a blazer on this grim little cowman, Slaughter had run him.
A man there was, grim his expression, just like a Thunderbird his features were frightening.
Now the first time that his small weazel-eyes happened to light on Billy Budd, a certain grim internal merriment set all his ancient wrinkles into antic play.
The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.
He hoped for a day when terracide, the death of the planet, was no longer possible, where the grim pendulum of global warming and global dimming was swinging the other way.
Sam and I were privates in Henceforth's company, and next Saturday, another temptsome day for lake or country, Dr. Darnell stood grim and forbidding on his balcony.
I had a grim sense of amusement on finding that the old woman was not deaf, for she went out, and presently came back with a gourdful, which I eagerly drank.
Montague could picture the grim, hawk-faced old man, sitting at the head of the council board, and laying down the law to the masters of the Metropolis.
If for some reason the heart is not feather-light, it is Anubis' grim task to toss it like a Scooby snack to the menacing, ever-hungry she-monster, Ammit.
Compared to such sentimentalism that dream of the million men rising up at the President's call between dayrise and dayfall appears like grim realism.
Lombard swung at the sweet pea he had dropped, caught it neatly with the toe of his shoe, and kited it upward with grim zest, as though doing that made him feel a lot better.
I'M sorry to be a Job's comforter, but the present position and foreseeable outlook for jobs and the standards of living for the majority is grim.
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This uselessness bestows on art a certain autonomy from the grim dealings in shopworn slogans and infoporn that characterize all other domains of the spectacle.

Examples from Classical Literature

The Grim Reaper was savagely striving to cut life short for one Yank air ace!
Grim had then to go where flags and knotgrass pricked tiny, almost invisible holes in the ice.
The disc, a jaded little conceptual love letter to the Grim Reaper, is predictably polished, meticulously crafted and sometimes dead boring.
He was said to have contacts in Canton and Grangetown and a tattoo of the Grim Reaper on his right hand.
A MAN who terrified a grandmother by appearing in her bedroom dressed as the Grim Reaper has been banned from going near her.
One home fan even turned up dressed as the Grim Reaper to poke fun at the Scot from just behind his seat in the away dugout.
Grim of face, the boy took his stand once more at the knothole.
Men were crowding about Grim, clean-cut, determined-looking Earthmen.
Hilary took a firmer grip on his automatic, nodded once to Grim.
And as Grim was poor, the Prince thought it no dishonor to work for his living, and he became in time a cook's scullion.
In truth, Grim had rather fairly described him as a gamecock.
Had the Grim Reaper no other harvest whitening for his sickle?
She takes off, just roaming around, using an alias, Casey Smith, accompanied, no less, by The Grim Reaper, with whom she carries on conversations.
He was a heavy-set, bewhiskered man with gleaming eyes and rather a grim look.
The Atlantean's beard glinted like metal as he shook with a grim, silent laughter.
The crosspatch Conductor took note of the two brown heads bent over the book and wondered behind his grim mask.
The grim figure of a Black Friar was directing the harvest of a sea of golden-yellow wheat.
All else on his canvas is subordinated to the grim image of the colossal Puritan.
Note amongst those still standing the black house, as it is called, a grim, weird-looking building behind the theatre.
Thanks to the lamp, brassey steered his way carefully and with a grim smile.
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His was a commanding physique, hard as the grim plains from which he wrested his living.
So we went on for a few of those dark days, Raffles very glum and grim, till one fine morning the Yeomanry idea put new heart into us all.
It was composed of the grim psychological laws that govern the abnormal.
The stern, dark face of the alcalde was overspread by a grim smile.
At the same time he hesitated to appall her with the grim knowledge.
He could see it more clearly now, billowing upward in grim portent.
Solid characters and Lance's alluringly grim dreams help distinguish this murder mystery.
There in his stateroom, cornered, he received me with a grim reluctance.
These antics were solely the result of nervous irritation, a mood born of Miss Miranda Sawyer's stiff, grim, and martial attitude.
This ancient architecture was colossally proportioned and weirdly grim.
At any rate, Dede and Daylight became aware of excitement in the paddock, and saw harmlessly reenacted a grim old tragedy of the Younger World.
Csar was gitting as straight as a crowbar and as grim as a gannet.
In the intervals they wear no insignia, their war-worn harness and grim weapons being sufficient to attest their calling.
Upon either side we saw grim death, assuming the most horrid shapes.
These kennings add much imaginative suggestiveness to the otherwise over-terse style, and often contribute to the grim irony which is another outstanding trait.
The word drone generally delineates grim reaper in the minds of Pakistani denizens by up surging the innervations of quietus, consternation and trepidation.
The eyes of my companions lighted, and grim smiles of pleasure and anticipation overspread their faces, as each eye turned toward me questioningly.
When its grim walls finally rose out of the ocean's mists before us, we were so far south that it was a question as to whether we were in the South Pacific or the Antarctic.
He was a strapping young fellow in the early twenties then, handsome, warm-hearted, and full of life, and he came to us like a miracle in the midst of that grim business.
Against the north wall was the empty stone coffin of an abbot, in which every tourist with a turn for grim humour was accustomed to stretch himself.
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If it were grim and desolate upon the English border, however, what can describe the hideous barrenness of this ten times harried tract of France?

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