Example sentences for: grisly

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

  • I think that what she has unearthed in grisly detail is the uniquely shallow, instrumental, and crass culture of Los Angeles (which I once heard described as "high school with money"), where looks, fame, and income compose the ranking rules for a truly wacky hierarchy.

  • Certainly it is no more grisly.

  • There's more musical invention in a song like "Trailways Bus" than in the entire score of the much ballyhooed Ragtime . It's nothing to do with rock vs. showtunes, only with the cruel truth that most contemporary Broadway music isn't very good: not popular music, not serious music, but existing in some grisly limbo in between.

  • Harris' hits were (as TV movies say) "based on a true story"--like his grisly ballad of an orphan girl asking the telephone operator to be put through to her dead mother, "Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven."

  • The article describes one such deployment in grisly detail: a special operations mission to murder American defectors in Laos.


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