Grimly is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Grimly meaning
Grim-looking, grim-natured.
Using Grimly
- The main meaning on this page is: Grim-looking, grim-natured.
- In the example corpus, grimly often appears in combinations such as: grimly realistic, grimly funny, even grimly.
Context around Grimly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Grimly
- In this selection, "grimly" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rabbis, perhaps, claimed, funny, sardonic and realistic stand out and add context to how "grimly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accurate detailed grimly entertaining answer and also a grimly funny moment. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "grimly" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with grimly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s morbidly intriguing, even grimly inspiring. (7 words)
By the time 2024 dawned, looking at headlines had become a grimly emotive experience. (14 words)
Margalida claimed grimly that they can "already see in which way it is heading". (14 words)
Eerie images from New York City, Chicago and Santa Monica brought home the totality of the social change, as Todd wondered, grimly, if American citizens are ready to “temporarily sacrifice enough of the freedoms we take for granted” to weather this storm. (42 words)
The fact is that Lissy, Gerd, son Tom and his sister Ellen clearly do not cohere as a family and, as a grimly humorous truth-telling session between Lissy and Tom will reveal, never really did. (36 words)
The hospitals that now – grimly – are being created before our eyes are those repurposed exhibition halls, the new Nightingale facility in east London and those planned in Birmingham and Manchester and Cardiff. (32 words)
They even grimly executed a few civilians after their mandatory “here’s a scene explaining my life just so you feel sad when I get mercilessly offed” screentime! (28 words)
Meanwhile Santa is laughing grimly and rubbing his hands together like "Damn, my hands are cold! (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
I can see that you're being grimly sardonic but given the well-known school to prison pipeline it's more grimly realistic.
But, as the rabbis grimly informed us, on October 7 and the days that followed, they were utterly overwhelmed, soon running out of gurneys on which to put the bodies.
But it soon becomes clear that, with Hill House, she has traded one grimly dysfunctional relationship for a far more dangerous one.
But the latest little queer slice of the galaxy far, far away has a grimly funny origin story.
There's also a grimly funny moment where it is revealed that Butters caused a horrific accident at a tap-dancing competition.
They are in the process of appealing, the result pending, and touring a staged wake feels perhaps grimly ironic.
By the time 2024 dawned, looking at headlines had become a grimly emotive experience.
Margalida claimed grimly that they can "already see in which way it is heading".
The fact is that Lissy, Gerd, son Tom and his sister Ellen clearly do not cohere as a family and, as a grimly humorous truth-telling session between Lissy and Tom will reveal, never really did.
When the sound, vision, styling and performances peak all at once, Eggers conjures some grimly memorable magic (mostly featuring the crunch and tear of slavering teeth on unwilling flesh).
Eerie images from New York City, Chicago and Santa Monica brought home the totality of the social change, as Todd wondered, grimly, if American citizens are ready to “temporarily sacrifice enough of the freedoms we take for granted” to weather this storm.
It’s morbidly intriguing, even grimly inspiring.
So, grimly joking that she’s just “houseless,” not homeless, she hits the road and, it being holiday season, finds a job in an Amazon plant sealing up boxes for shipment.
The hospitals that now – grimly – are being created before our eyes are those repurposed exhibition halls, the new Nightingale facility in east London and those planned in Birmingham and Manchester and Cardiff.
There, its spokesmen regularly offered evidence, including grimly inflated "body counts" of enemy dead, that allowed them to claim they were winning a losing war.
They even grimly executed a few civilians after their mandatory “here’s a scene explaining my life just so you feel sad when I get mercilessly offed” screentime!
Anyone searching for an accurate, detailed, grimly entertaining answer to those questions should consult Udo Ulfkotte’s Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA.
Clearly, Harmony Korine is steered by his attraction to the theatrical, the absurd and the grimly nihilistic.
Dublin emerged from the Second World War mostly (but not entirely) unscathed, but seems grimly eager to destroy itself ever since.
Meanwhile Santa is laughing grimly and rubbing his hands together like "Damn, my hands are cold!
Common combinations with grimly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: