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Example sentences for: grim

How can you use “grim” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Railroads provide the happy erotic metaphor of the train going into the tunnel; air travel offers the grim symbolism of "crash and burn."
In a cover story in the New Republic in May, Rieff painted a grim picture of "lost Kosovo."
The bombing of Serbia was "a grim duty, but as in Iraq, it must be done," it said.
On various episodes he is a member, along with Bluebeard and the Grim Reaper, of "the Jury of the Damned"; he takes part in a snake-bludgeoning (in a scandal exposed by a Bob Woodward book); his enemies list is used for dastardly purposes; even his dog Checkers is said to be bound for hell.
The softness and hardness at issue here are not, of course, the words having literally to do with the physical properties of the same name, but rather the higher, metaphorical qualities associated with the words: that is, hard in the sense of "stern," "uncompromising," "grim," "tough," "realistic," "verifiable," or "physically palpable"; and soft in the sense of "moderate," "subjective," "subject to emotion," "simple," "idealistic," "weak," or "physically immaterial."