How To Use Grimly In A Sentence

She fought him grimly, watched by other motorists unwilling to help, and then the man let go and ran.
Perhaps nothing can bring about racial equality, Wicker notes grimly.
Dim as it was, it seemed to shift, wavering in a disturbingly qualmish fashion, and he shut his eyes, concentrating grimly on what he might do to Richard Brown, and he got the man alone someday. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Ecole de Droit; the huge Alsacian carabineer, grimly smiling under his sandy moustaches and glittering brass helmet; the jolly nurse, in red calico, who had been to Paris to show mamma her darling The Paris Sketch Book
A rictus grin crumpled his careworn face; just another lost soul grimly drinking into the morning, pathetically clutching at the warmth of the false camaraderie of the night before. Survived another workshop!

The dark treacly colours of Adriaen Brouwer's Interior of a Tavern suit the murk and smoke of the pot-houses favoured by that grimly observant wastrel.
Character costs more money than you've got, Alma thought grimly. LOST CHILDREN
The Thug snarled, and spat at him, so Ilderim says: "Take him to the tree yonder," and while they did he hauled out his knife, stropped it on his sole, says "Bide here, husoor," and then strode grimly after them. Fiancée
Despite the distances between them, however, they clung to each other's company grimly, wordlessly coming to the help of the family whose house was blown over by the storm, anonymously leaving a young he-goat among the herd whose sire died the day before, and occasionally gathering at each other's homes for a night of tall and terrible tales or songs of loneliness and silent longing. Enjoyment
There is a canny innocence about it that is either very funny or grimly laddish. Times, Sunday Times
A sharp pain stung his neck, and he lifted a hand to explore the area, grimly satisfied when he found a small dart, about as long as a joint of his index finger.
Now we shall have dogs, and in plenty," he remarked grimly, slipping an axe from the sled lashings. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
Like watching, he thought grimly, as neither Dead bird sought to come any closer. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Not an experienced rider, Mikel clung grimly to the pommel until he remembered to use the reins. TREASON KEEP
Yet the worst of the lot still clings on grimly. The Sun
She chewed grimly on the fingernail of her little pinkie, narrowing her eyebrows in frustration.
The Prime Minister merely looked ahead, eyes and jaw grimly fixed, and uncharacteristically ignored his inquisitor.
The city walls, grimly bastioned, ran in bold zigzags across the face of the steep in a way to daunt assailants. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
She smiled grimly, ‘There are times you almost sound like that damn headshrinker they have me seeing.’
The mystery was in all of their thoughts as silently and grimly they came alongside.
Instead, she set her jaw grimly and waited in silence.
She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
To a man, they are all grimly grimy, stringy filthy hair on their heads and drooping from the bloody, flyblown scalps tied to their saddles, matted beards, funny hats and all. Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
The mystery was in all of their thoughts as silently and grimly they came alongside.
Nothing could be further removed from the ritual formalities of the continent, or the grimly murderous processes of trapping, gassing, poisoning or shooting.
Greeley came in and grimly took a chair by the cheerful fire on the ashless hearth. A Son of the Hills
How do water-babies drown?-With some difficulty, Nora says grimly.
Has the relentless Necessity of Comte erected its huge mill on this continent, to grimly grind out the annual quantity of patriotism, tyranny, noble self-abnegation, or Machiavelism, in the prescribed, invariable ratio of "Sociology? Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice
Another agent was sprawled limply by the auditorium door, and Bill, his lantern jaw outthrust, was grimly holding off the three attackers with his revolver.
Cultivating the spirit of perseverance, they keep plugging grimly along, clinging to the hope that this will eventually do them some good.
Well, Raven thought grimly as she turned her step towards the kirk, it will take a miracle to get us out of this in one piece.
She was staring grimly after her son, one hand tracing the cereal box as if to square off its corners.
The Romans would have stammered over their famous sheets of writings; they would have been grimly listened to, then skinned alive. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Not an experienced rider, Mikel clung grimly to the pommel until he remembered to use the reins. TREASON KEEP
Otherwise our first recollection would doubtless be of the grimly flushed large face of a resolute parent, bending hotly downward in effort to make both ends meet while we wambled and waggled in innocent, maddening sport. Pipefuls
`She'll be in," DS Cobbins had assured him grimly, `She's not going anywhere. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
They get deeper and murkier still," remarked Louis grimly. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
Grimly, Auguste marched back through the tent into the kitchen, with a contrite Boris trailing behind.
Back at Walton Hall he set grimly to work, applying his taxidermal brilliance to a hideous revenge.
It would have gone straight through you, even if you'd had armor on," said Sam grimly. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
he was grimly satisfied
They'll sequester me none"; he returned, grimly; "and if Dunsappie the macer tries it I'll have him read out of the church, for I know of him that which makes me able to do it! Nancy Stair A Novel
The point became grimly evident with the outbreak of the Korean War a few weeks later.
He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face, and said softly, as he drooped his head, ` ` My son, my Ostap! '' Taras Bulba and Other Tales
Eyes closed, head lilted right back so her long silken hair swung in a rip - pling swathe over his arm as he grimly tore through every veil of rejection she had dared to pull on against him. The Bellini Bride
He grimly paints the reality of the earlier time -- the bronchitic coughs and pneumonia and smallpox that will cut short these lives; the foul-tasting water and gray, nutritionally bankrupt diet; the unwanted pregnancies and drunken husbands and hopeless lives of women; the isolated, uncultured lives; and so on and so on. Matt Ridley's ÂThe Rational Optimist,Â reviewed by Wray Herbert
Once your speakers have recovered, you can move directly to the grimly compelling opening movement of the symphony. Times, Sunday Times
For only she could rouse the Cailleac," Geno reasoned grimly. The Woods Out Back
The chaos left in his wake, stalled the boat's forward momentum and Farash grimly pulled hard on both rudders to keep the craft from turning about in midstream.
One down at the turn, O'Hara turned the match on its head to take the lead by the 12th and he hung on grimly, taking the 16th when the German put his approach shot in the burn and halving the 17th for victory.
This hideous circle never widened; Nature always appeared to roll back the intruding debris; no bird nor beast carried it away; no animal ever forced the uncleanly barrier; civilization remained grimly trenched in its own exuvia. Colonel Starbottle's Client
He laughs grimly when I ask whether he is optimistic or pessimistic about the future. Times, Sunday Times
You'd know," said the nurse grimly, pushing open another door and shunting Rebecca inside. THE IMAGE OF LAURA
Ray Caesar creates fantastical, grimly hopeful and gravely whimsical images of wizened children who radiate an enigmatic serenity.
Though she has for years coped grimly with her own suffering, she cannot bear her son's; godlike, she sacrifices him in a baptism of fire.
Smoking grimly over the resplendent parallelogram of a sink was a woman with a blonde beehive. MUSIC FOR BOYS
He went with his father-in-law to see Mr. Warren in Jefferson Scattering Batkins, and the Squire grimly appreciated the burlesque of the member from Cranberry Centre; but he was otherwise not a very amusable person, and off his own ground he was not conversable, while he refused to betray his impressions of many things that Bartley expected to astonish him. A Modern Instance
Grimly cordial manicurists improved her fingers and toes.
She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel
Once your speakers have recovered, you can move directly to the grimly compelling opening movement of the symphony. Times, Sunday Times
There is a palpable sense of the ghosts of ancient wars looking down grimly on a humbled leviathan.
Not an experienced rider, Mikel clung grimly to the pommel until he remembered to use the reins. TREASON KEEP
I shouted something incoherent, about wanting to be first in at the death, and as they halloed encouragement after me I put my pony to a trot, hanging on grimly, and set off down the road. Fiancée
As he climbed up or down the dripping ladders, descending from sollar to sollar towards the level where he worked, he would set his teeth grimly that he might not curse aloud -- an oath underground being an invitation to the Evil One -- but in his heart the muffled curses were audible enough. Drolls From Shadowland
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I for one am glad that even in the 1990's (to say nothing of today), Harvard Law had largely moved beyond the pure Socratic method (though I recall grimly my Civ Pro class with Arthur Miller), because I don't know how "manfully" I would have endured it. Pound on the Socratic Method
His attempts to communize the growing and distribution of grain, as history grimly tells us, resulted in the starvation of millions of people.
But still I find myself rooting for him, wincing at his near-misses, and noting grimly the buffetings and bolstering of his twin averages. Why do I like Tim Bresnan so much?
Mind you, no psychological sensitivity can really rescue these grimly cardboard characters.
I'll say this for Wes, he is a grimly determined and wildly entertaining fleshmonger. Now THAT'S Pimpin'!
Riven hung on to his mount's bridle grimly whilst it bucked and reared in a desperate effort to get away.
We're too cowardly to actually commit insurrection, and its impossibility becomes a grimly mocking reminder of our impotence.
“The last innocent has suffered at your hands, recreant,” grimly intoned THE WRAITH. Masked
Neil is vain, priggish and, like his wife Iona, grimly materialistic.
Westworld makes this distinction grimly clear. Times, Sunday Times
He followed footprints that, as they approached the bourne, were sometimes marked in blood — followed them grimly, holding the austerest police-watch over the pain-pressed pilgrim. Villette
An assassin grimly carries his mission through the jostle of a carnival.
If she kept him far enough away, she thought grimly, ignoring the flops of her stomach every time she heard a step, she had a slightly larger chance of surviving.
Cornelius Tacitus, best known for his grimly disillusioned history of Rome's wicked emperors, was also the author of a short ethnographic treatise on the German tribes, known as the Germania. Slate Magazine
It bathes us in its own sad aura of humiliation, and makes us feel grimly disappointed.
A cry of nervous excitement broke through the chill, winter air and Washington nodded once more grimly.
This time, the term "mental defects," in Maxine 's grimly censorious mouth, set me off. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
His expression remained preoccupied, almost grimly so, Luz noticed. The Glory Game
“Not I,” said I, and sat grimly watching his face under the yellow paraffine flare, as he drank himself into a garrulous misery. The Island of Doctor Moreau
Instead, she set her jaw grimly and waited in silence.
It would have gone straight through you, even if you'd had armor on," said Sam grimly. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
‘Soccer regionals begin next week,’ he said grimly.
She answered, “Well, the thing must ye yourselves prove, but no friendship follows this bidding: — but yet again I dreamed that another river fell in here with a great and grimly rush, and tore up the dais of the hall, and brake the legs of both you brethren; surely that betokeneth somewhat.” The Story of the Volsungs
So many such letters accumulated that he grimly packeted them together and labeled the mass: “Assassination Papers.” The Lincoln Story Book
The audience is made to feel like a bunch of Peeping Toms, leering grimly through the upturned collars of their grubby macs into the love lives of the rich and famous.
Matt grabs the rock face with his bare hands and starts climbing grimly.
This maze of alleyways and compounds is grimly familiar to British veterans of Sangin. Times, Sunday Times
All grimly real, but safely distanced from the audiences by a sign that said ‘horrors of war’. Ballardian » An Exhibition of Atrocities: J.G. Ballard on Mondo films
“Those who have brought upon me the shame of having my word doubted shall be punished for it,” he said grimly. The Honor of the Name
That's what I call repelling boarders!" said Captain Barforth, grimly. The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht.
Shrugging off his fear, he squared his shoulders grimly.
Like watching, he thought grimly, as neither Dead bird sought to come any closer. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
Scarlet with his exertions, grimly aware that his sleeve was pulled from its armhole and his left puttie was strained out of its usual compact folds, nevertheless Weldon saluted her smilingly and, his mount well in hand, galloped off in search of his squadron. On the Firing Line
This maze of alleyways and compounds is grimly familiar to British veterans of Sangin. Times, Sunday Times
Grimly, he picked up a manual on defusing explosive devices and began to skim through it, just in case.
Then, with a final dismissive splosh, he steps back, still grimly unsmiling, to make way for a second character, the munashfi. Why Syria scrubs up so well
Ace nodded grimly in reply, still keeping his eyes ahead.
However, grimly amusing as this spectacle is, the political reality behind these appointments may be less felicitous.
Out on the various fronts the American soldiers grimly understood that they must hold on where they were for the sake of their comrades on other distant but nevertheless cotangent fronts on the circular line that guard Archangel. The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
Yet the worst of the lot still clings on grimly. The Sun
In the first days of INTERFET a number of sandbagged positions were built on the forward deck of the unarmed ship from which machine gunners watched grimly as the ship travelled close to ‘unknown’ territory when entering Dili Harbour.
Even when the Cumberland spurs, to the east, are gaunt and bare in the wintry wind, their deciduous forests denuded, their crags unveiled and grimly beetling, Pine Mountain remains a sombre, changeless mystery; its clifty heights are hidden, its chasms and abysses lurk unseen. In the Tennessee mountains,
Roland agreed, but less than fifteen minutes later the land began to slope downward and this old section of the forest began to be invaded with smaller, younger trees: birch, alder, and a few stunted maples scrab-bling grimly in the soil for purchase. The Waste Lands
He gazed grimly and indifferently at everything, with inappeasable grief printed on his stolid face; and said softly, as he drooped his head, “My son, my Ostap!” Taras Bulba
‘We must find shade and cool water or we'll all have sunstroke,’ she said grimly.
Mine was spent arseholed under a deserted railway bridge drinking cheap booze with mixers on a grimly cold and wet evening. TV Scoop
Once, they could dominate a conversation by recalling various disasters — the rest of us would grimly shake our heads in commiseration. USATODAY.com - For Red Sox fans, winning will take some getting used to
But it was obvious, Caswell thought, settling himself grimly on the couch, that mechanotherapy was going to be far more difficult than he had imagined. Bad Medicine
So many such letters accumulated that he grimly packeted them together and labeled the mass: "Assassination Papers. The Lincoln Story Book
I can't help wondering how Wood could bring himself to read as much of such a big book, so grimly unappealing to him, as he seems to have done.
My father stalked the bridge like a trainee version of the grizzled Captain McWhirr in Conrad's Typhoon, or a general sort of Conradian amalgam, grimly breasting aside Fate, thinking how nice it would be if only he could harbour some dark secret or had some hidden flaw which a crisis would fatally show up. 'Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History'

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