How to Use grim reaper in a Sentence

grim reaper

noun
  • This 16-inch grim reaper and tombstone is the perfect addition.
    — Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2024
  • On this song, Saja Boys transform from sweet boys-next-door to ruthless soul-jacking grim reapers.
    — Todd Inoue, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Later, the look became incorporated in folktales as the attire of grim reapers.
    — Claire Wang, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The television grim reaper has already come for a number of Netflix shows in 2026.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 31 May 2026
  • The series starred Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin as grim reapers in Seattle and ran for two seasons.
    — Leia Mendoza, Variety, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Out back on the patio, a pair of angels cry red blood tears into a fountain, skeletons escape their open coffins and a hooded skull peers over the tables like a Gordon Ramsay grim reaper.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • When annual results are compiled each January, winners tend to be amateur grim reapers who predicted a mix of shocking young deaths and the passings of anyone over 90.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Also, demons—more specifically, the gat-wearing, hanbok-donning jeoseung saja, a kind of grim reaper tasked with guiding the dead to the afterlife in Korean mythology.
    — Kayti Burt, Time, 21 Aug. 2025
  • But as the game began to wind down, there was only that familiar, eerie silence that settles over a football stadium as the UConn men, who have become a sort of grim reaper at these Final Fours, ran out the clock.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Once known as the Dueling Grounds Race Course as men used this land to settle disputes of major proportion in the late 18th and early 19th century, Kentucky Downs has at times wrestled with the grim reaper.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • After morphing into a giant monster in The Faculty, Harris starred on Bryan Fuller's Showtime dramedy about grim reapers, Dead Like Me, taking over for Rebecca Gayheart.
    — Keith Langston, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025

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