Sentence examples for a gruesome act from inspiring English sources

Investigators struggled to find a motive from a suspect whose past did not suggest any warning signs of such a gruesome act.

But its message of Pakistan's centrality to an Afghan settlement is strengthened, whether or not a gruesome act of revenge was intended.

BEIJING — In a gruesome act of resistance that has played out dozens of times in recent months, six young Tibetans set fire to themselves this week, shouting demands for freedom as they were consumed by flames.

Jacky, haunted by a gruesome act of violence in his past, huffs and butts through a rogues gallery of gangland Belgium, and Roskam draws a parallel between these dumb brutes and the animals they are farming.

He is the natural-born product of a media landscape in which a single gruesome act of Islamic State-inspired terrorism and workplace rage can become the wallpaper for our American world.

Saturday's murders in Kunming station of 29 people, and the wounding of 129 more, by 10 masked, black-clad men and women, add a dimension of scale to an already gruesome act.

It includes sex, violence and a few gruesome acts of dentistry.