grim

[ɡrɪm]

Definition:
1. Looking or sounding very serious.
2. Unpleasant and depressing.

Use 'grim' in a sentence:

• 1. The music was grim.
• 2. She was a grim woman with a turned-down mouth.
• 3. He looked grim; I could tell something was wrong.
• 4. When he lost his job, his future looked grim.
• 5. The outlook is pretty grim.
• 6. Her expression was grim and unpleasant.
• 7. Journalists paint a grim picture of conditions in the camps.
• 8. All were detained in the Salem Gaol, a grim edifice of granite blocks, iron-barred windows and brick-walled cells.
• 9. The impact on Indian society is grim.
• 10. But the future looks grim.
• 11. ‘It won't be easy, ’ he said grimly.
• 12. China's Leather Industry Will Be Faced with Grim Situation and Opportunity.
• 13. The city might be grim at first, but there is a vibrancy and excitement.
• 14. The OECD issued a grim forecast for the economies of advanced industrialised countries.
• 15. The report drew a grim picture of inefficiency and corruption.
• 16. The police officers were silent and grim-faced.
• 17. the grim walls of the prison.
• 18. The committee walked out, grim-faced and shocked.
• 19. The empty houses look too grim.
• 20. There she saw a lonely house, looking so grim and mysterious, that it did not please her at all.
• 21. But there is one grim exception.
• 22. the grim reality of rebuilding the shattered town.
• 23. Things are looking grim for workers in the building industry.
• 24. In this grim little episode of recent American history, few people come out well.
• 25. Millions of Britons face the grim prospect (= something bad that will probably happen) of dearer home loans.
• 26. Prisons like Strangeways, built more than 100 years ago, were intended to look grim and foreboding places.
• 27. The house looked grim and dreary in the rain.
• 28. The mood could not have been grimmer.
• 29. We received the grim news in silence.
• 30. Macklin had the grim task of carrying out an autopsy on his friend.
• 31. Their performance was fairly grim, I'm afraid!
• 32. The weather forecast is pretty grim.
• 33. Doctors can face some grim trade-offs.
• 34. The tower blocks on the city's grim edges.
• 35. Yesterday's crash has grim echoes of previous disasters.
• 36. Sure, the market looks pretty grim.
• 37. The situation is pregnant with grim possibilities.
• 38. But Washington would do well to take a deep breath before reacting to the grim numbers.
• 39. A grim and unsightly picture met his eye.
• 40. Psychometric tests can save organizations from grim and costly mistakes.
• 41. I feel grim this morning.
• 42. The parks and squares looked grim under a mantle of soot and ash.
• 43. In the face of the grim situation, we have.
• 44. The implications for the global water cycle could be grim.
• 45. It also made him aware of the grim reality.
• 46. Things were pretty grim for a time.
• 47. There was further grim economic news yesterday.
• 48. 'I'll survive,' he said with a grim smile.
• 49. They painted a grim picture of what life used to be like there.
• 50. They painted a grim picture of growing crime.
• 51. On that grim note I think I'll let you go.
• 52. We face the grim prospect of still higher unemployment.
• 53. Prisons are no longer the grim forbidding places they used to be. Social welfare systems are in operation in many parts of the world.
• 54. Washington would do well to take a deep breath before reacting to the grim numbers.
• 55. She looked grim.
• 56. The report paints a grim picture of life there.
• 57. The tower is a relic of grim days when big houses had to be fortified against invaders.