Sentence examples for a string of gruesome from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a string of gruesome" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a series of horrific or disturbing events, images, or details.
Example: "The documentary presented a string of gruesome murders that shocked the audience."
Alternatives: "a series of horrific" or "a chain of macabre".

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5.50pm: Furyk is following Harrington's lead and settling down after a string of gruesome birdies.

Spooky new girl Cole's arrival coincides with a string of gruesome murders – coincidence, or something more generically predictable?

During a search for a runaway girl, he discovers a string of gruesome murders seemingly connected to an investigation she headed several years earlier.

The movie "disintegrates into a string of gruesome shootouts, punctuated by interludes in the sleazy Martian hangouts that make this kiddie-minded film unsuitable for small children," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times in 1990.

Many of the sleazeball criminals and right-wing nut cases who fill out the novel's cast of characters are interchangeable thugs, knocking off victims and one another in a string of gruesome hit jobs that include scalpings, torture and mutilation.

In the days that follow, a string of gruesome murders will take place in the British advertising industry; the eyes removed from the victims, and....this detail kept from the general public, daubed in their own blood and entrails, the phrase "Should Have Gone to Specsavers".

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Perhaps it was the timing: a string of abductions and gruesome killings, for which eight members of the local police force have been convicted, have led to protests recently in Veracruz.

Perhaps the latest tactic will end the string of gruesome events, but the Foxconn deaths will continue to grip the Chinese public, in part because they are occurring at the same time as a series of brutal attacks on schoolchildren across China.

The gruesome case is the latest in a string of kidnappings and murders in eastern Ukraine which Kiev blames on Russia and its undercover agents.

A string of ISIS-inspired suicide bombings in Indonesia have brought a gruesome first for the country: Families are carrying out jihadi attacks and using their children as bombers, police said Monday.

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