How to Use grisly in a Sentence

grisly

adjective
  • The jurors saw grisly photos of the crime scene.
  • Court records filed in the case paint a grisly picture of the crime.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • These days, fans, for the most part, relish the grisly show from their cars.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2020
  • There’s no prize for second place — only a grisly death.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The grisly details were the stuff of nightmares.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 19 June 2026
  • There’s some very grisly violence in this movie.
    — William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Her face was also bruised and cut, with a grisly slash running from each side of her mouth.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • But a few half-decent fights, some grisly deaths and one brave monkey does not a good movie make.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Gordon said her voice had ordered him to commit the grisly act.
    — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2024
  • The lawsuit is the first civil case filed in the grisly murders.
    — Erin McCarthy, Philly.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Urapan has seen episodes of grisly murder linked to drug cartels in the past.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Over time, such grisly themes began to spill over into her music.
    — Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The Clue game is even better, as there's no grisly murder to solve here.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 16 July 2018
  • 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
  • Police made the grisly discovery near a trash bin at the back of the motel.
    — Sarah Nelson, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Police made the grisly discovery near a trash bin at the back of the motel.
    — Sarah Nelson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The grisly discovery was made by a canine unit training in the area.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 31 July 2020
  • A couple looking for a home to rent made the grisly discovery.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The city reached the grisly milestone of 300 homicides for the fifth year in a row.
    — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • But societies go to great lengths to hide the grisly process of pricing life from themselves.
    — The Economist, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Fowler would have led off the second inning, but his season had come to a sudden and grisly end.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The case has stirred emotion among tribal members and painful reminders of the grisly crime.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2020
  • Whoever gunned down a young dentist and his wife is still on the loose a week after the grisly killings.
    — Holly Yan, CNN Money, 6 Jan. 2026
  • When the time comes, demons barrel onto Earth to mete out a grisly death sentence.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Las Vegas would shatter our grisly, record body count just a year later.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • Pity poor Richard , who snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and met a most grisly end.
    — John J. Ross, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2019
  • Very dark, as Longfellow imagines the grisly death of his dad (Day).
    — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2025
  • But the grisly truth is that, in this case, China’s power derives from mass death.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 24 July 2025
  • Once Mouhib was in custody, the deputies made a grisly discovery.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2018

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