Sentence examples for pretty grim one from inspiring English sources

"It's pretty grim," one Western diplomat said.

"Pretty grim," one of them said, "these young people seem to think they're living in a different world".

"The mood here is pretty grim," said one staffer, who asked not to be named.

"Leith Walk itself has been transformed from a pretty grim road to one that is liveable with wide footpaths and zebra crossings.

This is dark material, as the judges have admitted – the books on the shortlist "are pretty grim", said Wood – though one of Sahota's many achievements is the humane spirit and lively comedy that lift his novel above any accusations of worthiness.

Life can be pretty grim for those on the bottom.

Sex, Chips & Rock 'n' Roll, which also stars Sue Johnston Brooksidee's Sheila Grant), contends that they were actually pretty grim, with pop music the one bright spot in a pre-sex-and-drugs landscape.

So this one is pretty grim, I must say.

I think funerals are inherently pretty grim and uncomfortable anyway; no one would wilfully make it harder for people to be a part of this kind of situation by saying anything.

He hasn't actually updated it yet for 2012, but based on the past ones that I was looking at, I think things look pretty grim for Obama based on that.

His cover of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, for example, or his reggae album, Countryman, or his duet with Julio Iglesias, To All The Girls I've Loved Before – a recording characterised by "stale excesses" if ever there was one – are all pretty grim.