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The phrase "a grisly death" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particularly gruesome or horrifying way in which someone dies, often in literature or storytelling.
Example: "The horror movie depicted a grisly death that left the audience in shock and disbelief."
Alternatives: "a gruesome demise" or "a macabre end".
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Pascal, who met a grisly death as the Red Viper, would have a significant role in Ben-Hur as the Roman prefect.
He miscalculates the next gap and leaps prematurely, then falls in slow motion toward a grisly death on the sidewalk below.
And though his crude bullet-proof creation didn't save him from a grisly death by hanging, it helped make him a legend in his land.
But the husky-voiced Ms. Nichols, who has more than a little of Elizabeth Marvel's melancholy intelligence, excels as the certitude that won Joan convert after convert starts to bring her ever closer to a grisly death.
His mother, meanwhile, had not recovered (and never would) from the trauma of seeing her husband dragged out of their home, apparently to a grisly death, by that mob in Philadelphia.
And now two fans have paid $20,000 each in an online charity auction to receive the honour of a character being named after them in the next novel – and seeing them "certainly meet a grisly death".
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Body parts were scattered at the scene of death, a grisly end to a man reviled for his gruesome acts of terror.
It's directed by Jesper Dalgaard and produced by Mads Damsbo and lets people experience a somewhat grisly death, a journey through the afterlife that takes in club culture, Tibetan Buddhism, and a subsequent resurrection.
It's directed by Jesper Dalgaard and produced by Mads Damsbo and lets people experience a somewhat grisly death, a journey through the afterlife that takes in club culture, Tibetan Buddhism, and a subsequent resurrection.
As if he hasn't put Game of Thrones fanatics through enough emotional turmoil by killing off their favourite characters, George RR Martin has said he will give a fan a "grisly" end – by writing their death in a novel in exchange for a £20,000 donation to his favourite charities.
It makes it sound as if falling off it implies a certain grisly death — or, in economic terms, a recession.
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