How to Use gruesome in a Sentence

gruesome

adjective
  • The police report described the scene in gruesome detail.
  • That the next project will die the same gruesome death.
    — Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The truth the jury learned was far more gruesome.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 7 May 2026
  • And, of course, there's plenty of gruesome gore to go around.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Of course, there’s one team that doesn’t belong on this gruesome list.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But the gruesome scene wasn't real.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Aug. 2025
  • You will be hooked as this novel gets to truth of this gruesome murder.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
  • Oh, there were so many more people that died in other gruesome ways.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Despite the gruesome killing, not a drop of blood was left behind.
    — Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Everyone says, the show is scary, and there are some gruesome bits.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • The gruesome scene evoked outrage from city and state leaders.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
  • Danielle allegedly tried to clean up the gruesome crime scene.
    — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 7 June 2022
  • This time around the scares are very potent and the kills are graphic and gruesome.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 May 2022
  • But one photo, far less gruesome, has been gnawing at me for weeks.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • His wounds weren't as gruesome as the circumstances that caused them.
    — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2021
  • When the engine shuts off, the gruesome work begins.
    — Anas Baba, NPR, 6 May 2026
  • Wiley told the judge his client would have to live with his friend’s gruesome death for the rest of his life.
    — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • There are some tough choices that are made in that episode, some gruesome things that happen.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • It’s displayed beneath the short film’s gruesome main event.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The complaint lays out part of the timeline leading up to the gruesome find.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • 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
  • There’s also a great deal of very gruesome violence on the show.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Avoiding the gruesome sight of Till’s body was not an option.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Of course, the young couple will soon be murdered in gruesome fashion.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Hooper, an Austin native, filmed some of the more gruesome scenes in the house.
    — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • This story is set in a gruesome, violent, vile world.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The 81-minute premiere sets the tone with a series of rather gruesome deaths.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The film opens with the gruesome murders of a preacher and his wife in the presence of their young son.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2021
  • That gruesome video was then quickly copied across the internet.
    — John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025

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