gruesome
Example Sentences
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The film is partially based in reality; the Hayes character is inspired by Martin Donnelly, whose promising career was cut short in 1990 by a gruesome crash.
From Los Angeles Times
"I went to university in Nottingham to study history, and I've always been really interested in the more gruesome and grotesque elements of history," she said.
From BBC
One gruesome feature of this more than two-year-long civil conflict has been the huge volume of footage and photos of horrific atrocities - often seemingly filmed by the culprits themselves, and circulated online.
From BBC
I thought what might follow would be Mr. Icke’s most provocative—and logical and interesting—departure from Sophocles, an ending of a more ambiguous and less gruesome kind.
The gruesome subject matter is translated into immediate household imagery that someone Amélie’s age could grasp.
From Los Angeles Times
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