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Example sentences for: grim

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A younger brother, inexplicably drawn by Dana's grim novel Two Years before the Mast (1840), had run away to a life of adventure at sea, and their father ordered Fitzedward to bring him home.
The winter of 1981-82 was a grim one for the U.S. economy.
In a cover story in the New Republic in May, Rieff painted a grim picture of "lost Kosovo."
The Times said they were "a grim necessity" forced on the allies by Saddam; while the Daily Telegraph , under the headline "See It Through," ran an editorial urging them to extend the offensive into Ramadan.
The crypt is a grim maze of corridors lined with cells containing the tombs of the famous, as well as the not-so-famous.