Grim is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like gloomy or alarming. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Grim in a sentence
Related words
Grim meaning
- Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
- Rigid and unrelenting.
- Ghastly or sinister.
Synonyms of Grim
Using Grim
- The main meaning on this page is: Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. | Rigid and unrelenting. | Ghastly or sinister.
- Useful related words include: gloomy, alarming, sick, macabre.
- In the example corpus, grim often appears in combinations such as: the grim, grim reaper, grim and.
Context around Grim
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grim
- In this selection, "grim" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sack, reaper, picture and reminder stand out and add context to how "grim" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a grim faced trump and a grim period of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grim" sits close to words such as drums, internally and medicaid, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grim
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A grim period of history had begun. (7 words)
All of these are grim realities, staring at us. (9 words)
Banksy’s grim reaper outside the Gallery of Modern Art. (10 words)
And grim as that was – as well as a grim reminder that, so many years after America’s major wars in the Middle East ended, tens of thousands of our troops are still stationed on bases the region – the response has been grimmer yet. (44 words)
Barring the odd bright spot, the last two years have been about as grim as it gets for a club which for 35 years had been the embodiment of consistent success: for a while now, this has felt like a broken club. (42 words)
At 7.50am, "amidst death-like silence, the dull, ominous sound of the deathbell was heard", they headed a grim procession which trudged out of the pinioning room to the gallows, with priests reading prayers to them as they walked. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
And grim as that was – as well as a grim reminder that, so many years after America’s major wars in the Middle East ended, tens of thousands of our troops are still stationed on bases the region – the response has been grimmer yet.
All the mistakes have been made around the Westminster Change UK team who have little experience of the grim reality (not so grim these days!) of being in a third party.
According to a new tweet from insider TV Grim Reaper, the minutes viewed for HBO's have skyrocketed since the show was added to the Netflix library.
A clean orange cup was sitting on a filthy countertop where everything else was covered in an inch of grim and dirt.
After discovering what was in the sack, Grim made haste to Lincolnshire after refusing to "dispose" of Havelock.
A grim-faced Trump quietly walked into the New York courthouse.
A grim period of history had begun.
All of these are grim realities, staring at us.
And as we saw last time around, it was we’re looking really grim on the morning of September 30th.
And earlier this year, MailOnline revealed how the King's guards were living in filthy conditions at the iconic Wellington Barracks, with grim pictures showing piles of litter, blocked, filthy toilets and leaky appliances in the block.
And, for as grim and hopeless as the material might seem, that’s exactly what Craig Mazin’s game of the same name, is doing.
An interim report paints a grim picture of poverty in Australia and urges the government to act in next week's budget.
As a hero in a grim world that has forgotten its history, players follow a set path that starts with no identifying features except for basic enemies.
A strict, bottom-up valuation of Mullen paints a grim picture.
At 7.50am, "amidst death-like silence, the dull, ominous sound of the deathbell was heard", they headed a grim procession which trudged out of the pinioning room to the gallows, with priests reading prayers to them as they walked.
At a time of so much grim news, that’s a win for humanity.
Atiku thus, literally held the oesophagus of death the grim reaper and deflated the balloon of its hubris.
At the same time, the company became the entertainment industry’s grim reaper.
Banksy’s grim reaper outside the Gallery of Modern Art.
Barring the odd bright spot, the last two years have been about as grim as it gets for a club which for 35 years had been the embodiment of consistent success: for a while now, this has felt like a broken club.
Common combinations with grim
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the grim 33×
- grim reaper 11×
- grim and 10×
- was grim 9×
- more grim 9×
- grim as 6×
- as grim 6×
- grim picture 6×
- is grim 6×
- grim discovery 5×