Sentence examples for grisly events from inspiring English sources

It was not expected – at least before today's grisly events – that Obama would make a request for a bombing campaign extending into Syria.

The Kolyma slave-ship voyages, among the grisliest of the many grisly events of Soviet times, also came the closest to American shores.

But last night some sharply detailed ensemble work and the superbly charged performances of its principals lent a desperate, consuming momentum to the grisly events unfolding on stage.

As city officials toured the site of one of Kenya's worst terror attacks, where Somalia's al-Shabaab slaughtered at least 67 people as they dined and shopped, it was easy to forget the grisly events that happened here.

Yet Mr Modi, who dares not speak to the press for fear that he will be asked about the grisly events of 2002, does not seem ready take that path.

On this snowy Valentine's Day morning, phoned-in reports of grisly events in the town seem as bogus as the Sunshine Chopper, a fictional traffic helicopter that is actually a truck parked on a hill.

Soon a counter-rumor was launched: the grisly event had indeed occurred, but it was a Pepsi-Cola tank that the luckless fellow had stumbled into.

But my own reaction surprised me: for someone who had never witnessed such a grisly event, I felt grief, even fear, but strangely little shock.

Despite this grisly event, the dodo population returned with the rains, and they survived for another 3800 years before the arrival of the Dutch in 1638, when they were hunted to extinction.

But it is just as restrained in following the threads that extended from that grisly event, one that stunned the country and, more than a year before Lee Harvey Oswald was shot on camera, showed the frightening powers of live television.

As well as the main story, it relates the lives and deaths of several other captive elephants, including one in America that was executed as a murderer by hanging (there's a picture); another, Topsy, was electrocuted by Thomas Edison on Coney Island (you can watch the grisly event on YouTube).