Sentence examples for grim fighting from inspiring English sources

At the end of January Kurdish fighters in Kobane, a Syrian town on the border with Turkey, said that they had expelled IS after four months of grim fighting with help from coalition bombers.More than 1,000 IS fighters are thought to have been killed in that battle.

The ISSG also reached a deal on a cessation of hostilities in Syria, but its prospects appear grim as fighting continues.

We must now consider a series of extremely grim scenarios: fighting in Lebanon inflaming sectarian tensions in that country; the pilfering of Syria's chemical weapons either by another state or nonstate actor; the total collapse of Syria and a violent free-for-all in the resulting power vacuum.

In Benghazi, Libya's second city, the election took place against a grim backdrop of fighting.

All 20 or so passengers, myself included, were grim and pale, fighting seasickness.

Budgeting involves grim inter-service fighting at the best of times, but the current round is the toughest in decades.

Fighting -- especially fighting the good fight such as ours -- is not grim, it's liberating.

There are a pair of grim clowns who end up fighting like tramps and a woman in knee-length boots, black knickers and a succession of loose frocks who spends the first hour or so rushing repeatedly forward to some dramatic climax, drenching herself with bottled water and changing her dress at the back.

The knight's move plot jumps from gay henchmen to fighting dogs, the grim reaper (Gabriel Byrne, wouldn't you know), a hysterical lady farmer and a dizzy suicidal flatmate.

How nice it is to see major sports promotions (if you'll allow me to call Strikeforce a major sports promotion) actually embrace the Internet, rather than fighting it like Grim Death.

"Ryan has the full support of The Huffington Post in fighting these charges," Grim continued.