Sentence examples for grim evening from inspiring English sources

Chris Ashton also had a grim evening.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Days later, the survivors' faces tensed at the memory of the grim evening: soldiers dousing thatched-roof homes with gasoline, setting them on fire and shooting residents when they tried to flee.

She told me that her dinner guests were Ken Dodd and Frank Skinner - a grim night, then.

His tread is weary and he is holding a lamp, as if clocking on for some grim night shift.

He was rather taken by the dry response, the first piece of humour from a grim afternoon.

He has to raise his game quickly because otherwise this is going to be a grim afternoon's work.

While the news looked grim tonight for Senator John McCain in much of the country, he defeated Gov. George W. Bush in four of five New England states holding primaries.

Updated at 5.08am BST 2.28am BST Paul Snowdon (@67Snowy) @LengelDavid @GdnUSSportsFeed They look grim tonight and @carlosbeltran15's injury has added to the insult of their dreadful fielding.

He had offered to take my father as well, but the old man was comfortable in the warm kitchen, and it was a grim morning, chill and wet, out of doors.

After explaining, briefly and precisely, why his team had fallen so heavily at a grim afternoon's final fence, Romania's coach Emerich Ienei was asked his opinion on his team's final group fixture against England in Charleroi tomorrow night.

It is nearly 20 years since the grim afternoon in May 1994, when Formula One suffered its last on-track fatality, that of a three-time world champion, the Brazilian Ayrton Senna, who died when his Renault-powered Williams car left the track at over 190 miles an hour in what was then grand prix racing's fastest corner, the Tamburello sweep on the Imola circuit in Italy.