Sentence examples for a grim finale from inspiring English sources

If either Pendleton or her horse had been seriously injured it would have been a grim finale to an unprecedented experiment.

• All day, on the other side of Baltic down toward Fourth, parks department workers had been tearing out a community garden, the grim finale to the thorniest controversy our block had seen in years.

Levy's sense of dramatic form, as she hastens us toward the grim finale, is unerring, and her precise, dispassionate prose effortlessly summons people and landscapes.

The grim finale is reminiscent of Lord of the Flies and this deserves to be as well known as that most infamous of books.

His four-year tenure on America's Got Talent was marked by a grim determination to clamber up on stage during the grand finale and belt out a blindingly unselfconscious musical number of his own.

He created a grim march in the first movement, Shostakovich's famous depiction of the invading German forces, but in the finale, he managed only a shapeless interpretation, making the work's structure diffuse and overblown.

That was a grim, grim day.

A grim smile.

It is a grim portrait.

It's a grim business.

Scarcity is a grim reality.