How to Use grisly in a Sentence

grisly

adjective
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  • The jurors saw grisly photos of the crime scene.
  • The city reached the grisly milestone of 300 homicides for the fifth year in a row.
    — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The town has a trailer park and a shuttered strip club that was the scene of a grisly killing in 2008.
    — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Dec. 2021
  • These days, fans, for the most part, relish the grisly show from their cars.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The group also walked by a convenience store that was the site of a grisly killing in 2018.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Reznor later took the door with him as a grisly souvenir.
    — Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Police made the grisly discovery near a trash bin at the back of the motel.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2022
  • There was fear among fans that Kim Wexler, Jimmy’s ex-wife, would see a grisly end.
    — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The grisly display led at least one passerby to call 911.
    — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2021
  • The males that don’t launch themselves out of their lover’s embrace in time suffer a grisly fate.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Floyd’s grisly death sparked Black Lives Matter protests around the country and world.
    — Donna Owens, Essence, 13 Apr. 2021
  • In the late 1990s, on one of their earliest tours, the Drive-By Truckers nearly met a grisly fate.
    — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 28 June 2022
  • Urapan has seen episodes of grisly murder linked to drug cartels in the past.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
  • When the time comes, demons barrel onto Earth to mete out a grisly death sentence.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 27 Nov. 2021
  • The families of the victims never saw the grisly photos.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The second came 12 years ago with the grisly murder of Viola at the hands of a teenage neighbor.
    — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 10 Apr. 2020
  • But, what lurks at the heart of that grisly crime might not be the season’s most exciting surprise.
    — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 28 June 2022
  • The moment was inspired by one of Hanawalt’s grisly dreams, in which a jaguar ate her mailman’s face off.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2021
  • A couple looking for a home to rent made the grisly discovery.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The case has stirred emotion among tribal members and painful reminders of the grisly crime.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • The grisly discovery was made by a canine unit training in the area.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2020
  • The circumstances strongly suggest a link among the grisly deaths.
    — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Gordon said her voice had ordered him to commit the grisly act.
    — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • But societies go to great lengths to hide the grisly process of pricing life from themselves.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Daemon sees the end of the dragons alongside a grisly battle on the lakeshore, then falls forward into the depths of the lake himself.
    — Alexis Nedd, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2024
  • And TikTok sleuths tried to solve some grisly killings but wound up sparking an online witch hunt.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • According to the bed and breakfast’s website, the house is largely unchanged from the time of the grisly murders.
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2021
  • A few hours later, a dog walker stumbled on the grisly remains, and police followed a trail of blood back to the crime scene.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 11 May 2022
  • The third Galston triplet, who asked not to be named to protect her privacy, worries that the grisly circumstances of the murders of her beloved sisters have overshadowed their short lives.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Moreover, giant hornets are known for their grisly methods for bee murder—unfortunate beekeepers have found their hives filled with bee carcasses, the heads ripped from their bodies.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024

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