Sentence examples for grim area from inspiring English sources

So we're driving around in this grim area of Pittsburgh and I start talking in this over-the-top Jamaican accent.

It sees past the Godfathers of Metal tag, returning them to their roots, in a thrillingly grim area between the late-60s blues revival and the last bitter dregs of psychedelia: a kind of curdled Cream.

One of the places that existed in both was Schindler's former Emalia factory, in a grim industrial area of the city.

It was a grim industrial area employing 20,000 steelworkers at the nationalised British Steel Corporation and had returned a Labour MP for decades.

Driving through a grim industrial area in the rain with John Coltrane playing through my headphones, I felt like I was watching a film.

The indoor facilities were disappointing: a steam room that resembled the one at my gym and a surprisingly grim relaxation area with curtains that blocked the ocean view.

AT the beginning of each episode of HBO's hit television series "The Sopranos," Tony Soprano drives to his home in New Jersey through tollbooths onto the New Jersey Turnpike, passing the rusty viaducts and grim industrial areas that have long made the name Garden State seem ironic.

Although he claims to have been a hit with the ladies from the get-go ("It's always been a mutual admiration society between me and the girls," he tells me soon after we sit down in the bus's grim little kitchen area), one suspects that his early successes had more to do with charm than looks.

Although conditions remained grim, and some areas were still without basic supplies, things were far better than a week ago.

In outlying areas, grim institutions still wait to be taken over, and that often involves turf wars.

Similarly, in Iraq it's not clear that the future rule of Shia-dominated militia groups and others in the rubble left by the last years of grim battle in areas ISIS previously controlled will actually prove measurably superior to the nightmare that preceded them.