GRIM in a Sentence

Learn GRIM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

148 example sentences for GRIM, such as:

1. The weather forecast is pretty grim.
2. She stuck to her task like grim death.
3. There was a grim, knowing smile on her face.
4. They painted a grim picture of growing crime.
5. He set about the task with grim concentration.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRIM
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grim
 a.  unrelenting; rigid; dismal and gloomy; cold and forbidding
Classic Sentence: (141 in 10 pages)
1  He remembered afterward, with a grim flash of self-derision, what importance he had attached to the weighing of these probabilities.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  These refugees cried out to see Pennsylvania one solid sheet of flame, and even the gentlest of old ladies wore expressions of grim pleasure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  The habit of command sat upon him now, a quiet air of self-reliance and authority, and grim lines were beginning to emerge about his mouth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  True, grim determination had taken the place of high-hearted hopes, but people could still find a silver lining in the cloud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  He looked as if he had not a care in the world and that in itself was startling these days, when other men wore such worried, preoccupied, grim looks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  There was a glow of grim pride in her usually gentle face, approbation and a fierce joy in her smile that equaled the fiery tumult in Scarlett's own bosom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  Scarlett nodded, a grim pleasure and pride in her adopted town filling her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
9  But when he thought of Mammy and the look of grim determination she wore as she cut into the velvet curtains, he was cheered a little.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  The rights of Suellen and Frank Kennedy did not even enter her mind, save to cause a grim inward chuckle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  Only this was no diversion but a grim business.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  And to that grim and close-knit community it was as if she had tried to betray the honor of them all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
13  There was a grim, knowing smile on her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
14  There was that about his grim one-eyed face which discouraged curiosity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
15  He looked like a man secretly gnawed by a scarcely endurable pain and there was a grim tight look about his mouth that baffled and hurt her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence:
1  They painted a grim picture of growing crime.
2  The weather forecast is pretty grim.
3  He set about the task with grim concentration.
4  She stuck to her task like grim death.
5  I have seen their grave; it formed part of the pavement of a huge churchyard surrounding the grim, soot-black old cathedral of an overgrown manufacturing town in shire.
6  Robert held her gaze for a long time, his expression grim and slightly troubled.
7  From the doctor's grim expression, I could tell he had somber news.