How to use "grim" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "grim" in popular movie and book plots

  • Secretary of the Economy Walter Frankel presents the latest grim economic projections, blaming the naval budget.  - On Basilisk Station
  • Then Louis informs Villon about his grim fate.  - If I Were King
  • The curiously grim end credits feature names and head shots of the actors set to total silence.  - The Skydivers
  • It is in part a parody of noir and horror fiction, with many stylistic tricks, gags, plot twists, and a grim conclusion.  - A Void
  • Gunfire damages the oxygen tanks, and they come to the grim realization that there is not enough oxygen for all to make the return trip.  - Woman in the Moon
  • A grim man runs a coffin shop with many specialty coffins.  - Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django
  • In 1930, fishermen in the small Catalan port of Esperanza make a grim discovery in their nets, the bodies of a man and a woman.  - Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
  • To Man's grim surprise, the plan is also to include Tao's men killing him with Kui's gun to frame him for murder.  - Police Story (1985 film)
  • By 2071, the future is grim indeed.  - A Mind Forever Voyaging
  • Passing through a dark tunnel out of the cave, the three arrive at an island inhabited by a grim man calling himself Pessim the Observer.  - The Scarecrow of Oz
  • Tasked with responding to Thanatogenos' letters is mr Slump, a grim drunk who advises that she marry Joyboy.  - The Loved One
  • A grim battle between Jack and the lions endangers both Jack and his wife.  - Bwana Devil
  • In the next dramatic scene, French civilians watch in grim despair as a convoy of German troops marches into France and takes control.  - Battle of Britain (film)
  • A second opinion confirms the grim diagnosis, and the other doctor implies that the poisoning must have been deliberate.  - D.O.A. (1950 film)
  • The surviving seniors attend a grim graduation ceremony.  - Carrie (novel)
  • They are informed of a group of zombies trapped in the basement, which they assist in the grim job of destroying.  - Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)

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