gruesome

Example Sentences

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Their favorite move is a gasp-laugh, as when they flash a gruesome image on screen that’s so disgusting you can’t help but giggle.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

But after considering the most gruesome what-ifs, I reasoned that having a landline would guard against me missing emergency communications.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

But she suffered a gruesome fracture of her wrist in late 2024, then crashed heavily at the end of a World Cup race in Georgia in March last year.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Marcia finds it “difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossible and rather gruesome to speculate on it.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

“Listen to my son, Miss Lumley. Listen! And imagine the gruesome end that awaits him, and me, if this curse is not ended.”

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood