Sentence examples for can be grim from inspiring English sources

But Tiree nights can be grim.

Life for poor children and their families can be grim.

Reading JM Coetzee can be grim but is never pointless.

January can be grim but it hasn't been at all.

When islands are grim they can be grim indeed, and Swinburne is that.

Major mistakes and accidents are rare, but the consequences can be grim.

Or grim can just be grim: ugly and unrewarding.

The topics we deal with can be pretty grim and dark.

Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble (Viking £25) is obviously a grim story as the pace of reprisals among the civilian population rises, quite apart from military atrocities (although it can hardly be grimmer than the same author's Berlin).

For students of the music industry, the weekly album chart can be a grim read, as the numbers hit historic low after historic low.

"They can be pretty grim," Mr. Marcus said.