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.