How to Use gruesome in a Sentence

gruesome

adjective
Definition of gruesomenext
Synonyms for gruesomenext
  • The police report described the scene in gruesome detail.
  • This gruesome scene marked the dawn of a new age in Japan.
    — Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
  • At the end of ’18, a gruesome leg injury kept him off the field for the next two years.
    — Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Hooper, an Austin native, filmed some of the more gruesome scenes in the house.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The gruesome crash occurred on the the last day of school for New York City students.
    — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
  • The 81-minute premiere sets the tone with a series of rather gruesome deaths.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • This time around the scares are very potent and the kills are graphic and gruesome.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • The complaint lays out part of the timeline leading up to the gruesome find.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • Here’s a description, from IMDb.com, of one of the gruesome scenes.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Notes and photos of the gruesome crime that gripped this city 25 years ago aren’t far from his mind.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2022
  • Of course, there’s one team that doesn’t belong on this gruesome list.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Everyone says, the show is scary, and there are some gruesome bits.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • Even the pictures are gruesome: A side-shot of a face so bloated with death it’s gone flat.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
  • The gruesome scene evoked outrage from city and state leaders.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • House of the Dragon is big, ridiculous TV at its best and most gruesome.
    — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
  • With one of Ohio’s largest and most gruesome homicides back in the headlines, here’s a reminder about the facts in the case and who’s who.
    — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2024
  • You will be hooked as this novel gets to truth of this gruesome murder.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
  • The creators made the destruction of the cruise ship by nanofibers appalling and gruesome.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
  • It’s one of the seafood industry’s most gruesome hunts.
    — Joshua Goodman, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The crime scene inside the home was gruesome and disturbing.
    — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Danielle allegedly tried to clean up the gruesome crime scene.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 7 June 2022
  • In classic Tarantino-style, the path to free his enslaved wife is soaked in blood, guts, and some of the most gruesome scenes on film.
    — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In a gruesome series of events, the orcas ate the tongue of their victim and lifted its corpse from the sea floor for the whole group to feast on.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 16 July 2024
  • Give us a massacre almost as epic and gruesome as the one that took place when Victor was a kid.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • By the end of the gruesome rampage, two other victims were also dead.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And then there’s a gruesome memory of an irate snake fighting one of our cats, Fudge.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
  • Oh, there were so many more people that died in other gruesome ways.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Those aboard gathered along the railing to gawk at the gruesome diversion.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Daniel Hill remembers the gruesome image of Palovich covered in Hughes’ blood.
    — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But the celebration turned gruesome this autumn when one of the male contestants killed a female contestant.
    — Ayana Archie, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024

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