Sentence examples for thin grim from inspiring English sources

Death is an integral part of an infantryman's life, floating around us in a thin, grim fog.

He was alone by choice in the vastness of the hills and plains, running his cattle and closely encountering wild white horses: alone save for that manly cigarette lodged in his thin, grim lips.

By now twenty-seven years old--thin, grim, and still unmarried--he readied himself for yet another New World.

The only people hung up on such distinctions are grim, thin-lipped Daily Mail readers projecting decades of supressed anger accumulated over endless bowls of joyless, frigid, ration-card stew.

In 2002 and 2003, with Sept. 11 still haunting the news, he painted three identically framed head-shot portraits: of a smiling, plump-faced Osama bin Laden; a blank George W. Bush; and himself, his face grim and thin.

It took a while to self-examine this behaviour: why I was stabbing, alone and nude, in the panic attack of the dark; why, two full minutes after being clattered out of bed, my heart was still racing as I danced violently around my own room; why I was stood here, slick with a thin film of my own grim sweat, squeezing onto an impromptu knife for dear life.

To a hairless, thin-skinned tropical primate, the grim winter morning at the Baltimore Zoo had all the appeal of a pair of wet pajamas.

Over time, his grim referendums on his team have worn as thin and transparent as cellophane.

You know all the grim headlines: soaring crime, industrial decay, city services stretched dangerously thin, abandoned blocks, "urban prairies," forced downsizing.

Germans have endured a litany of grim news since they re-elected Mr. Schröder by a reed-thin margin two months ago.

She was grim in the face of most of it but grew so skeletally thin, kids got afraid to punch her or push her into the wall for fear she'd break.