Sentence examples for become grim from inspiring English sources

But magazine companies other than Condé Nast have become grim places to work in recent years.

Once you start looking under the tent poles, though, perhaps for a film where nothing is blown up, things become grim.

Since the outbreak began on Feb. 20 in Essex, more than 200,000 animals have been marked for slaughter, and pyres of carcasses have become grim, almost medieval, totems of the disease, generating columns of smoke.

Even if the events become grim, the reviewers could not help but smile as Isaac and Miria appear.

As the world marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide on April 6, the macabre human remains of that terrible massacre have become grim stations of the cross on the tourist circuit in the otherwise magnificently beautiful country -- just as they did years earlier in another far-off country from whose experience humanity failed to learn.

Yet Harry Potter's fulfilment of his destiny has now become grim-faced.

It looked grim and it seemed certain that it was about to become grimmer at any moment.

The likelihood is that the shortfall in retirement assets is going to become grimmer with time.

Taking stock of the anemic turnout, his expression became grim.

The finances of the Favaloro Foundation, as the hospital was known, became grim.

But after the oil-price crash in the mid-1980s, liforfor most of the young became grim.