How to use grimly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word grimly? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples I can't help wondering how Wood could bring himself to read as much of such a big book, so grimly unappealing to him, as he seems to have done. Back at Walton Hall he set grimly to work, applying his taxidermal brilliance to a hideous revenge. It enjoys good views of the hills to the west, but the local context is grimly suburban, with the usual extensive car parks. It bathes us in its own sad aura of humiliation, and makes us feel grimly disappointed. Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful, and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity. The film opens with grimly beautiful imagery that will be repeated in variations throughout. Well, Raven thought grimly as she turned her step towards the kirk, it will take a miracle to get us out of this in one piece. Future generations will surely look back and laugh grimly at this catastrophic moral and intellectual failure. He is one of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America. They joke grimly about a mythical tour called Ladies of the 80s, as if to remind themselves how it could have turned out. She was staring grimly after her son, one hand tracing the cereal box as if to square off its corners. This grimly comical tone, with its overtly sly humor, is what ultimately elevates the film to a level of near brilliance. The Prime Minister merely looked ahead, eyes and jaw grimly fixed, and uncharacteristically ignored his inquisitor. They were, he observed grimly, sowing the wind and would reap the whirlwind. As your eyes become accustomed to the gloom, you can vaguely see a troupe of grimly determined dancing girls. Most of them plodded grimly along, stubbornly reminding themselves that the things they were doing were necessary. A cry of nervous excitement broke through the chill, winter air and Washington nodded once more grimly. Cultivating the spirit of perseverance, they keep plugging grimly along, clinging to the hope that this will eventually do them some good. We're too cowardly to actually commit insurrection, and its impossibility becomes a grimly mocking reminder of our impotence. She chewed grimly on the fingernail of her little pinkie, narrowing her eyebrows in frustration. Show More Sentences Troy grimly thumbed the detonator as a trio of eager gunrunners raced forward with what looked like shaped charges of plastique. By the film's violent climax, we are grimly aware of how immature exploits can quickly escalate to tragedy. The U-boat crew grimly stalked its prey under rather less opulent living conditions. A pot-bellied shopper of some sixty summers came trudging grimly up the street. However, grimly amusing as this spectacle is, the political reality behind these appointments may be less felicitous. His attempts to communize the growing and distribution of grain, as history grimly tells us, resulted in the starvation of millions of people. With his eyes grimly locked to mine, he informed me that I would be promoted to private first class that evening. Mind you, no psychological sensitivity can really rescue these grimly cardboard characters. We see crying women being led out of the camera's range, while nurses and doctors grimly consult. The Allies grimly battled their way to the Gustav line, which stretched from Ortona on the Adriatic coast to Minturno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. The result is a grimly effective, if overlong, mix of cautionary tale, ghost story, and psychological thriller. This is a grimly powerful, unsentimental picture, not least in showing what a battleground school can be. She fought him grimly, watched by other motorists unwilling to help, and then the man let go and ran. His grimly realistic depiction of frontier, small town life comprehensively undermines the heroic mythologising endemic to the Western genre. The film works as both an intense character study and a grimly realistic look at the war fought between the police and drug dealers every day. There is a palpable sense of the ghosts of ancient wars looking down grimly on a humbled leviathan. This year's toll of four deaths is grimly shocking and raises questions about the safety of such long-distance races. Libertarians, of course, have grimly wished a pox on both their houses of Congress. If she kept him far enough away, she thought grimly, ignoring the flops of her stomach every time she heard a step, she had a slightly larger chance of surviving. The dark treacly colours of Adriaen Brouwer's Interior of a Tavern suit the murk and smoke of the pot-houses favoured by that grimly observant wastrel. Show More Sentences The portrait presents her as a grimly determined wartime heroine. The handful of men at the Alamo grimly hang on for survival. As the Highlanders grimly plodded on, they found it difficult to decide which to curse first and most vehemently, the heat, the dust or that relentless sun glare. To simulate the breaking of bones he employs a rubber dog bone which snaps grimly when bent, he also uses a ratchet wheel. Anderson as the drug-addicted Uncle Arthur has been grimly, exhaustingly good. The sunset was cruelly beautiful and as dusk deepened the Christmas lights on the firehouse grew grimly brighter. But the Scotsman had a devil of a job, needing four grimly contested sets over four hours. Yet the plot is still getting thicker. The nastiest recent episode was grimly familiar. Luckily, you discover that a shotgun blast to the head will tear a zombie apart, and with new confidence you grimly face the undead hordes. Sigourney Weaver, as his mother Tuya, grimly maintains a straight face while wearing a chicken on her head. We smiled grimly at one another as he walked away, leaving us at the bus stop. But this makes it sound as though mentoring is a grimly earnest affair, when in reality it is usually just the opposite. We walked quickly towards those seals, just three weeks old, grimly aware that we would soon be filming their slaughter. As Canada's first Prime Minister, Macdonald grimly and almost single-handedly held the nation together. Even as the war against Germany drew to a close, the battle of the seas went grimly on. I felt strange and most unsafe sitting up in such a fashion, and I freely confess that I hung on grimly to the padded platform. Conan watched grimly until the last of the procession entered into the forbidding tower. Another agent was sprawled limply by the auditorium door, and Bill, his lantern jaw outthrust, was grimly holding off the three attackers with his revolver. Neil is vain, priggish and, like his wife Iona, grimly materialistic. This left her boss, the commander in chief, to hand his nine-iron to the caddy and grimly ask for broom and dustpan. Show More Sentences Walmart is actually defying the logic embraced so grimly by Sears, Kmart, and millions of citizen-shoppers. Nothing could be further removed from the ritual formalities of the continent, or the grimly murderous processes of trapping, gassing, poisoning or shooting. In the Financial Times today, business leader Mortimer Zuckerman grimly summarizes the crisis in American jobs and wages. The audience is made to feel like a bunch of Peeping Toms, leering grimly through the upturned collars of their grubby macs into the love lives of the rich and famous. The chaos left in his wake, stalled the boat's forward momentum and Farash grimly pulled hard on both rudders to keep the craft from turning about in midstream. A sharp pain stung his neck, and he lifted a hand to explore the area, grimly satisfied when he found a small dart, about as long as a joint of his index finger. Matt grabs the rock face with his bare hands and starts climbing grimly. It is a way of acknowledging the sacrifice of all the men who have lost their lives to mining over a very long period of time, but merrily and positively, in celebration, rather than grimly and sadly, in regret or horror. The search for floating wreckage was grimly familiar, but even as mourners built memorials in the sand, investigators quickly recovered the flight voice and data recorders. At least Sutherland warrants his salary because it goes towards treating the RSI he's developed in his face from pulling that grimly resolute expression so often. Together we grimly ingested dishes of MSG with bean sprouts on the side. Most people cling grimly on until their dying breath. He paused, grimly regarding it, while a dash of pleased coxcombry seemed to mingle with the otherwise savage satisfaction expressed in his face. Many people returned to work a bit anxious, they acknowledged, but grimly determined not to let terrorists get the better of them. Some of the voices — notably the senior ones, belonging to Martin Landau and Christopher Plummer — are grimly convincing, but Elijah Wood's 9 lacks the staunchness of his Frodo. But he made no audible comment, though his thoughts were as black as his brow and as grimly fashioned as the set of his jaw. Doesn't it seem that she herself is dumbly stupefied by the strangeness of the form that she quickly made in the flesh of her lower abdomen when she grimly etched the shape of a triangle with clips on her belly? In Manila, for example, Senator Loren Legarda, who is chair of the Senate's Standing Committee on Climate Change, waved the map and said grimly, there is no reason to smile, because Philippines is all red. The report that Odon von Horvath had been killed in Paris by a tree sounded at first so grimly shocking, absurd and incredible that it was hard to accept it as true. The high angel, Michael, flanked by the two commanders, continued his relentless attack bearing grimly and deliberately down upon the two dark leaders, Python and Jezebel. Examples from Classical Literature The Bines what-not in the sitting-room was grimly orthodox in its equipment. He could imagine the thousands watching grimly while the flayer used his knife. Yes, said Pryce, grimly, your people seem to have left you out of this bean-feast. He attributed it, doubtless, to his abbreviation of her name, for he smiled grimly. Judith pressed a delicately flushed cheek to Norah's, and attempted a butterfly kiss, which she evaded grimly. He remembered the two men, cag and Monty, and grimly vowed to repay them if he ever met them again. Then he grimly changed his garments for the full-dress uniform of the Med Service. Guess Ive got maws fool in a fuss, he said grimly to himself as he braced his body for a struggle. Manning had picked up a sheaf of typescript from the table next to him and was flipping through it, his lips pursed grimly. One would have to go far to find a wilder, weirder, and more grimly suggestive spot. Jimmy smiled grimly to himself as he noted the new town Hall. You couldnt get me away with a Gatling gun, said Tom, grimly. If Rob had been grimly resolved to win the arrow before, the sight of her sweet face multiplied his determination an hundredfold. Miss Leonora sat rather grimly looking on at all this byplay. He grimly stripped to underwear and put on the heat-suit from his bag. So I dismissed my motorboat and grimly turned to scows instead. Hed better get out of the way, said the truckman grimly, in a low voice. It bears a grimly significant resemblance to a gallows tree. I even added grimly that I knew only too well how that sort of spec. However, he thought grimly, there was this Australian aborigine. Show More Sentences Sterber's lawyerly soul was outraged, but he was grimly elated. Mr Bastian smiled grimly, as he began to see the plot develop. Lenny smiled grimly as he passed the little pole from where it lay. Nay, could grimly live and burn, while the common vitality to which it was conjoined, fled horrorstricken from the unbidden and unfathered birth. Torrance smiled grimly, and there was a hardness in his voice. Chadband composes herself grimly by the fire and warms her knees, finding that sensation favourable to the reception of eloquence. He had left us grimly determined to confess to his father the dark secret of his Presbyterianism, and we were anxious to know what the result had been. I know how to chastise children, you see,' said the scoundrel, grimly, as he stooped to repossess himself of the key, which had dropped to the floor. Old soldiers of the Parliament were here, too, smiling grimly at the thought that their aged arms might strike another blow against the house of Stuart. To this address, my aunt had listened with the closest attention, sitting perfectly upright, with her hands folded on one knee, and looking grimly on the speaker. It was explained to them as being a friendly arrangement and transfer, but they shook their heads grimly, and considered it an act of subjugation of their ancient allies. He laughed most undutifully and then his face twitched grimly. Nay, could grimly live and burn, while the common vitality to which it was conjoined, fled horror-stricken from the unbidden and unfathered birth. Find more words! Another word for Opposite of Meaning of Rhymes with Sentences with Find word forms Translate from English Translate to English Words With Friends Scrabble Crossword / Codeword Words starting with Words ending with Words containing exactly Words containing letters Pronounce Find conjugations Find names From Afrikaans From Albanian From Amharic From Arabic From Armenian From Azerbaijani From Basque From Belarusian From Bengali From Bosnian From Bulgarian From Catalan From Cebuano From Chichewa From Chinese From Corsican From Croatian From Czech From Danish From Dutch From Esperanto From Estonian From Farsi From Filipino From Finnish From French From Frisian From Galician From Georgian From German From Greek From Gujarati From Haitian Creole From Hausa From Hebrew From Hindi From Hmong From Hungarian From Icelandic From Igbo From Indonesian From Irish From Italian From Japanese From Javanese From Kannada From Kazakh From Khmer From Korean From Kurdish From Kyrgyz From Lao From Latin From Latvian From Lithuanian From Luxembourgish From Macedonian From Malagasy From Malay From Malayalam From Maltese From Maori From Marathi From Mongolian From Burmese From Nepali From Norwegian From Polish From Portuguese From Punjabi From Romanian From Russian From Samoan From Scots Gaelic From Serbian From Sesotho From Shona From Sinhala From Slovak From Slovenian From Somali From Spanish From Sundanese From Swahili From Swedish From Tajik From Tamil From Telugu From Thai From Turkish From Ukrainian From Urdu From Uzbek From Vietnamese From Welsh From Xhosa From Yiddish From Yoruba From Zulu To Afrikaans To Albanian To Amharic To Arabic To Armenian To Azerbaijani To Basque To Belarusian To Bengali To Bosnian To Bulgarian To Catalan To Cebuano To Chichewa To Chinese To Corsican To Croatian To Czech To Danish To Dutch To Esperanto To Estonian To Farsi To Filipino To Finnish To French To Frisian To Galician To Georgian To German To Greek To Gujarati To Haitian Creole To Hausa To Hebrew To Hindi To Hmong To Hungarian To Icelandic To Igbo To Indonesian To Irish To Italian To Japanese To Javanese To Kannada To Kazakh To Khmer To Korean To Kurdish To Kyrgyz To Lao To Latin To Latvian To Lithuanian To Luxembourgish To Macedonian To Malagasy To Malay To Malayalam To Maltese To Maori To Marathi To Mongolian To Burmese To Nepali To Norwegian To Polish To Portuguese To Punjabi To Romanian To Russian To Samoan To Scots Gaelic To Serbian To Sesotho To Shona To Sinhala To Slovak To Slovenian To Somali To Spanish To Sundanese To Swahili To Swedish To Tajik To Tamil To Telugu To Thai To Turkish To Ukrainian To Urdu To Uzbek To Vietnamese To Welsh To Xhosa To Yiddish To Yoruba To Zulu English French Afrikaans Word Albanian Word Arabic Word Bengali Word Chinese Word Croatian Word Czech Word Danish Word Dutch Word English Word Finnish Word French Word German Word Greek Word Hindi Word Hungarian Word Icelandic Word Indonesian Word Italian Word Japanese Word Korean Word Latin Word Malay Word Malayalam Word Marathi Word Nepali Word Norwegian Word Polish Word Portuguese Word Romanian Word Russian Word Serbian Word Slovak Word Spanish Word Swahili Word Swedish Word Tamil Word Telugu Word Thai Word Turkish Word Ukrainian Word Uzbek Word Vietnamese Word Welsh Word All words 2-letter words 3-letter words 4-letter words 5-letter words 6-letter words 7-letter words 8-letter words 9-letter words 10-letter words 11-letter words 12-letter words 13-letter words 14-letter words Plural of Singular of Past tense of Present tense of Verb for Adjective for Adverb for Noun for Meaning of name Origin of name Names meaning Names starting with Names of origin grimly Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search Advanced Word Finder See Also What is another word for grimly? What is the opposite of grimly? Words that rhyme with grimly What is the adverb for grimly? What is the adjective for grimly? What is the noun for grimly? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words griminess grimier grim-faced Grimes grimes Grimed Grimly Grimm grimmer grimmest grimness grimoire 6-letter Words Starting With g gr gri grim griml