How to Use grisly in a Sentence

grisly

adjective
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  • The jurors saw grisly photos of the crime scene.
  • The grisly discovery was made by a canine unit training in the area.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2020
  • The case has stirred emotion among tribal members and painful reminders of the grisly crime.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Large helpings of camp and melodrama propel grisly tales of ghoulish behavior.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
  • One of the building’s residents, a 34-year-old mother, said she was alerted to the grisly scene by a woman screaming in the hallway.
    — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Previously: the grisly sides of perfume, angora, pearls, mirrors, and orchids.
    — Katy Kelleher, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • For those alarmed by Barden’s imagination, the inspiration for this grisly scene is a living species called the Dracula ant.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The Navajo Nation said no to executing Lezmond Mitchell, despite the grisly nature of the killings.
    — Felicia Fonseca, Star Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • As interactions between humans and cetaceans increase, there may be more grisly endings on the horizon—unless people learn to manage the situations better.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 July 2020
  • Trump seemed unaware and shocked by the grisly details and surprised that the family had yet to have a funeral because of the horrific mutilation of Guillen’s remains.
    — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 31 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Kim Kardashian wants Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers convicted in the grisly 1989 murders of their parents, to be freed.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Police opened them when the train arrived at its destination, discovering the grisly crime.
    — Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 17 July 2024

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