Sentence examples for on a grim from inspiring English sources

He has to think about the diners who might otherwise waste money on a grim experience.

Burials there took on a grim regularity in October, when more than 100 Americans were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

What you're waiting for is the love connection between the two principals, which begins to take on a grim inevitability.

-- "[S]uddenly the 'M.B.S.' moniker took on a grim new meaning among the plugged-in set of Washington: Mister Bone Saw," the New York Times's Jim Rutenberg reports.

Burials at Arlington National Cemetery took on a grim regularity in October, when at least 103 American troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

THE fruit pushcart down the block from my apartment stands out like a Gauguin on a prison wall, the one splash of bright color on a grim stretch of Columbus Avenue high-rises.

Not every assault on a grim pestilence is led by one filthy-rich field marshal.

Some have taken on a grim relevance.

It's an aspirational take on a grim, everyday reality.

In 2006, war came to Lebanon, and Israelis entered Marjayoun on a grim August Thursday.

But they've chosen, instead, to draw smiley faces on a grim picture, convincing nobody.