Sentence examples for a pattern of grim from inspiring English sources

The atoll's evacuation fits into a pattern of grim, if unsurprising, news.

The BBC's Ian Pannell says they follow a pattern of a fairly grim weekend for US forces in Afghanistan.

A pattern of deception!

Display a pattern of leadership.

A Pattern of Death.

Identify a pattern of bossiness.

Make a pattern of cat.

The survivors recalled a period of shelling and then the swift onset of a grim pattern of symptoms: shortness of breath, disorientation, blurred vision, vomiting, weakness, loss of consciousness..

Now Bijan Ebrahimi takes his place on that sad list of murders – a grim pattern of disabled men falsely accused of sexual crimes they didn't commit, and then killed with overwhelming cruelty by a lynch mob.

ANTAKYA, Turkey — Syrian security forces arrested scores of people across the country on Saturday as mourners took part in the funerals of six protesters killed Friday outside of Damascus, continuing a grim pattern of protest, death, mourning and repression that has been repeated week after week as the uprising in Syria enters its fourth month.

A sense of grim deterioration is ever present.