The phrase "grim struggle" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate a difficult, often seemingly hopeless struggle to achieve something. Example Sentence: Despite the grim struggle, Sarah persevered and eventually achieved her goal.
Obama's grim struggle for balance overseas, and how the Arab Spring remade his foreign policy.
The violence exerted against Joan, and her grim struggle with political opponents, now has an added resonance.
But once Joe Mbu went over for London and Paul Sykes converted to make it 20-16 minutes from time it was a grim struggle to hang on.
Yet survival need not always be a grim struggle, there are ways to do it in style, and any league that can send a club such as Burnley into Europe need not feel too bad about itself.
Growth at the top of the league table for academic entry will mean those in the middle and at the bottom face a grim struggle to hold on to the high-performing students they already have.
Denounced by a drunk teenager, the Golovins are resettled a continent away in Augean conditions.Also hitherto underchronicled is the grim struggle for housing in Stalin's newly overcrowded cities, where people married, stayed together and denounced each other for a few precious square metres of floor.
He was drawn to crumbling empires, upheaval, moral crisis and grim struggles that whittled heroism down to a human scale.
Encounters with dissenting opinion, all too often for Mrs May over Brexit, are framed as a grim struggles – to be ground away by her obstinacy.
It's not all grim urban struggle: Dybek can strike lighter notes too.
As I watch them being picked off by superior beings, I start to wonder whether this is a metaphor for Man's grim Darwinian struggle.
Grim urban struggle and nostalgic teenage guilty sex coincide in this story collection with a single narrator, Perry Katzek, in a Chicago long abandoned by James T. Farrell's Irish, now occupied by Poles, Mexicans and Italians.
