Sentence examples for grim years from inspiring English sources

She endured grim years in detention after her father's death.

He never forgot the grim years that followed.

The Post's View: Egyptians face another 15 grim years of tyranny.

During those grim years, the economy was shrinking; it is not now.

It covers the Civil War, Reconstruction and those first grim years of sharecropping and lynching.

The latter, working in Inner Mongolia, also published in 1993 a novel on the grim years of the Cultural Revolution.

2016 has been a grim year.

That's what happened in 2003, a particularly grim year.

It's been a grim year in federal politics.

It was a grim year for many farmers.

My God, this was a bit of a grim year, wasn't it?