Sentence examples for a grim exercise from inspiring English sources

Two rows of cages were being used as a grim exercise yard for segregated inmates and the practice of 'slopping out' effectively continued on the vulnerable wing at night, it said.

Two rows of individual "bleak cages" are being used as a grim exercise yard for segregated inmates at one of the UK's top security jails, the chief inspector of prisons has disclosed.

But he says many prisoners on the vulnerable prisoner wings said they did not feel safe and prisoners on suicide watch were often held in the segregation unit, which had a limited regime, staff who often appeared uninterested, and a grim "exercise yard".

The whole grim exercise is a disaster".

This "Miami Vice" is a grim genre exercise — fascinating, certainly, and impressive at times, but only intermittently enjoyable.

Ditch the workout, start world peace For some of us, exercise is a grim necessity.

Winston Smith always wakes to a "grim" reality: he has to "join in compulsory exercises following the instructions given by a woman from the telescreen".

Many experts have to an extent written off the last Strategic and Defence Review of 2010 as essentially an exercise in budgetary discipline - a need to force defence spending into the constraints of a grim financial environment.

That was a grim, grim day.

It is a grim portrait.

It's a grim business.