Sentence examples for may be grisly from inspiring English sources

Robert Gore-LangThe, The Daily Express: "LaBute's playlets may be grisly, but I defy you to walk away from them".

Surgical procedures can be grisly, but dissections are somehow worse.

What ought to be grisly is strangely not.

Poetry readings don't have to be grisly.

"Could be grisly," he says—"four years".

Inventive as a protest measure it may be -- however grisly -- but the only certainty in this entrenched battle is that for those who go down in a blaze of flames for their struggle, their efforts end there.

Eating people may be wrong, but the grisly prospect of "some shepherd's pie peppered with actual shepherd on top" is alleviated by the gaiety of the tune.

Of course, our mission is portray the world in all its aspects, however grisly they may be.

That may be part of why the grisly nature of Mike's fate, and the possibility that some of his buddies were responsible for it, disturbs him so much.

Rosa is terrified when she sees a cowled figure floating in her bedroom, suspecting it may be the abbot who met a grisly fate at the hands of Henry VIII's men.

Partisan or biased as some of this grisly account-keeping may be, it has the virtue of keeping alive the idea that justice may eventually be done and that, when that time comes, there will be evidence available that will enable it to be done.