Sentence examples for a grim phase from inspiring English sources

Critics accused the Pentagon of embellishing her story, saying the Bush administration was trying to use Private Lynch to rally public support at a grim phase of the war, when the American-led march to Baghdad seemed stalled by unexpectedly stiff Iraqi resistance.

In the United States we are probably headed for a very grim phase of uncertain duration.

Such was a very small manifestation of a brief but grim phase of Labour history.

It was a grim place.

He decided to show, in a series of adjacent images, the depravity of the attacker, the chaos he created and the world moving on — different phases of a grim modern reality.

That was a grim, grim day.

A grim smile.

But it was also a grim reminder.

It is a grim situation in Cuba.

It is a grim portrait.

It's a grim business.