How to Use the Grim Reaper in a Sentence

the Grim Reaper

noun
  • Oh yeah, the Grim Reaper has our number.
    — John Tufts, IndyStar, 10 Dec. 2025
  • He's posted a video likening it to the Grim Reaper.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Rogan Gregory came in as the Grim Reaper and couldn’t fit through the door.
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Scorpions, snakes and cockroaches were on the lounge chairs with the Grim Reaper serving a drink.
    — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2026
  • Newspaper cartoons in the 1920s often showed the Grim Reaper driving cars.
    — Scott D. Anthony, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2025
  • Over the years, the Grim Reaper of Hollywood had already come for so many of my colleagues — forcing them to pull their kids from private school and move home.
    — Nick Morton, HollywoodReporter, 20 Apr. 2026
  • GrimAge — a clock named after the Grim Reaper — reflects the probability that a person will die within a year.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The skeleton, depicted with red eyes and resembling the Grim Reaper, stands before silhouettes of guard towers and fencing that resemble a prison compound.
    — Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Among them are Neeson as a Great Gatsby-esque type who puts Declan in the hospital after a punch-up and Cleese as a priest who also doubles as the Grim Reaper.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 11 May 2026
  • Billionaire Elon Musk, who supported Crawford's opponent Brad Schimel, shared an image of the Grim Reaper looking for Soros in a claw machine last month.
    — Hannah Parry jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • This early landmark of Swedish cinema was one of Ingmar Bergman’s favorite movies, and the influence is obvious in eerie scenes where a ghostly driver dressed like the Grim Reaper roams the countryside searching for souls.
    — Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025

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