Sentence examples for grim figure from inspiring English sources
Even that grim figure paled in comparison with the 1,360 deaths recorded in 1929, a dark superlative not since matched.
They will be especially painful for Florida, which had a 10.6% unemployment rate last month a grim figure that nevertheless marks a two-year low.
Almost 700,000 Spaniards lost their jobs during 2012 – a grim figure beaten only in 2009, early in the current crisis when 1.2 million Spaniards were put out of work.
But there have been growing fears that a grim figure from Afghanistan's past, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who once destroyed half of Kabul while battling to take control of the city, could be about to open new attacks.
She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses — "a small grim figure with a notebook and a cold," as she memorably describes herself.
The boys, ages 8, 12 and 15, were instantly killed, placing them among 31 victims of land mines in Nariño this year, a grim figure that includes 19 civilians, according to Colombia's government.
Those grim figures come with a caveat.
Behind these grim figures stand increasingly nervous shoppers.
City and state officials spent months trying to steel the public for the grim figures.
