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Example sentences for: gruesome

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Children were routinely told horrifying tales about gruesome creatures lurking nearby, ready to devour them if they so much as left their beds.
There is a gruesome Stephen King story, called "Survivor Type," in which a heroin-addicted surgeon marooned on a desert island successively amputates each of his limbs in order to survive.
If I were a parent of adolescents, I'd try to keep them away from Marked for Death but not from Saving Private Ryan , even though the latter is far more vividly gruesome.
And a gruesome story about sexual molestation of boys in Welsh reform schools.
This was a gruesome farce, and the United States should have acted much earlier, with substantial firepower, to overwhelm the Bosnian Serb leadership.