Sentence examples for grim things from inspiring English sources

I've seen lots of grim things in my reporting, but a fistula in a teenage girl is about the saddest.

FOR proof of how grim things have become in Myanmar, consider how locals talk about America's invasion of Iraq.

And in the lanes between whitewashed houses in the tiny capital, Male, grim things have been taking place.

He bungee-jumps into the midst of grim things, and lifts his hat.

It's easy to forget now how grim things were back then.

Imagine, though, how grim things would have been if yesterday's announcement had instead been a presidential no-show.

The grim thing is that many of them will someday be found.

"This is a terribly grim thing to say," he wrote recently, "but there might be no solution to the problem of Iraq" -- no way to produce "a stable, secure, let alone democratic regime.

He has also been vocally opposed to the use of filibusters and in 2003 stated on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer "But they [the Democrats] blocked an up-or-down vote by carrying out the filibuster rule, and I think that's a very, very grim thing.

As grim as things seemed, Mr. Wise signaled to friends hints of optimism.

"I'm here, Indiana, to tell you that there are better days ahead," Mr. Obama said after his line about the grim way things were going.