“He had dark circles under his eyes and a grim expression on his face.”

“The grim discovery of a dead man in a Govan flat was one of the most sensational murders Glasgow has known.”

“It is a grim story about an aspiring scriptwriter who becomes involved in a triangle involving a young would-be starlet and her sister, a singer.”

“Am I some deep-sea snake-monster that thou, thou grimsome watcher, watch me even when I swallow my spittle?”

“And the numbers are even grimmer in neighborhoods like Johnny's, where students are five times more likely to have underqualified teachers.”

“There are those tales too of a somewhat grimmer nature concerning the use of humour to palliate the horrors of war.”

“The wording was practically archaic and the message it conveyed was grimmer than it needed to be, in her opinion.”

“Taking off the lid, he brought out a pair of the grimmest black lace-up school shoes I had ever seen in my life.”

“Even the grimmest of Riis's photographs show only a few people, at most, in the back alleys and basement dives.”

“Thankfully, this time there was a smaller death toll, but in every other respect it was the grimmest of warnings.”