Sentence examples for could be grim from inspiring English sources
The alternative, they say, could be grim.
That aspect of the balance sheet could be grim.
Many diplomats and analysts consider retaliation unlikely, but the consequences could be grim.
With insurgent violence worsening on both sides of the border, the consequences could be grim.
But the outcome could be grim, for Africa and the rest of the world.
Twenty years from now, the story of China's suicide rate could be grimmer than it is today.
And if other creditors follow the path of Kenneth Dart, an American billionaire who this week won a $700 million lawsuit in a Manhattan court for full repayment of his Argentine bonds, the result could be grimmer all around.
It's no exaggeration to say that if we don't think more holistically about agriculture, the 21st century could be grimmer than any of us want to imagine.
The film's subject-matter could not be grimmer, yet Lang enlivens grey emptiness with an Otto Dix-like burlesque energy.
The record, including the Congo (numerous outside parties), South Sudan, Darfur, India (a Maoist insurgency), Nigeria (Islamic extremists), and so on, couldn't be grimmer.
