Sentence examples for a grim time from inspiring English sources

"It was a grim time," he says.

It was an optimistic message at a grim time.

But it is a grim time for the chancellor.

Those violent, seemingly exuberant tracks reflected a grim time.

The Middle East had a grim time of it in 2014.

Both books are set in 1982, a grim time of food shortages and implacable bureaucracy.

Those years represented a fairly grim time for Arsenal: they didn't win a major trophy between 1979-1987, altheygh they did get to the FA Cup final and the Cup Winners' Cup final in 1980.

Abbott said it was a "grim, grim time" for the families of those on board and "a grim day for the the world", adding if it was confirmed the plane had been shot down "it becomes not an accident but a crime".

Moscow in 1990 was a pretty grim time.

It was a particularly grim time in South Africa.

Mrs Kelly described it as a "very grim time": "He was exceedingly upset, we both were, very anxious, very stressed".