Sentence examples for grim duty from inspiring English sources

It is the conductor's grim duty to find the body or what is left of it.

That grim duty does not trouble all politicians: ask Mr Clinton and Mr Bush.

Morse watched the boy smear blue lines across the placemat, wielding the crayon as if out of grim duty.

As always, Dr. Jehuda Hiss, the director, carried out his grim duty of piecing together the broken bodies and tending to the raw emotions of the living.

To the extent that he's a household name, it's as a comic foil and fail-safe, the guy with the grim duty of laughing at Mr. Leno's jokes (or being the brunt of them).

Watching mediocre ballet might be worse, however, and it is my grim duty to inform you that "Nutcracker: Rated R," now running at Theater for the New City, gives ticket buyers a chance to decide for themselves.

But similar to the grim duty once performed by canaries in coal mines, high levels of enterococci is an indicator of something, ah, rotten in the state of our local waters.

The executioner offered a drink of water, and then continued with his grim duty.