How to Use grim reaper in a Sentence

grim reaper

noun

• Still, for some, the adrenaline fix is worth staring the grim reaper in the face.
  — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 9 May 2021
• XXXTentacion is now face-to-face with Gekyume, who looks more like the grim reaper now, in a dark room with his head bowed.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 28 June 2018
• The app has a 3.8 rating on the Play Store and over a million downloads, which is not good enough to save it from the Google grim reaper.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2020
• But one thing is certain: The grim reaper is waiting in Samarra.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2021
• And those distortions don’t end when the grim reaper comes calling.
  — Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• Hirschhorn said as someone dressed like the grim reaper appeared to collect the puppies.
  — Matthew Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Nov. 2019
• Some experts think at least a few of us—the super-agers—will continue to stave off the grim reaper for longer and longer.
  — Amanda Onion, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2017
• Gaiman's grim reaper eschewed a cloak and scythe for a black tank top and a spunky attitude — inspiring many young goths in the process.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Many hit men and teens worship La Santa Muerte, the cult of death represented by a grim reaper.
  — David Luhnow, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• Simpson’s chest ink featured a skull and crossbones line, with the grim reaper scythe’s underneath.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• That date has sat on our calendar like a grim reaper lurking outside the window.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2018
• Folks can come face-to-face with the grim reaper (whose side gig, spookily, involves a ride-share hearse) and an upright white gator wearing a top hat.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• Wayne Cassell dressed in a hooded black cloak, covered his face with black cloth and carried a scythe to complete a grim reaper costume.
  — Pamela Wood, baltimoresun.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• Soon after, the survivors of the freak accident realize the grim reaper is coming for them in this horror film.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 12 Jan. 2023
• With fierce dragons, grim reapers, and characters like the Minions and Snoopy, there's an option for every vibe from scary to silly.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 7 Aug. 2018
• One shows a smiling grim reaper, another displays the outside of a haunted house, and one even boasts a sketch of Count Dracula.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 7 Oct. 2018
• From its perch, Spirit’s mascot — a grim reaper, fittingly enough — grins down upon Portage Park.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 25 Oct. 2021
• That hooded figure lingers like the grim reaper around crime scenes, eerily aware not only of what’s befallen the characters but what’s about to.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2020
• There’s a sheet-metal figure of the grim reaper that stands on a highway in the mountains just south of Mulegé, about halfway down the Baja Peninsula’s eastern coastline.
  — Nate Matthews, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020
• The car has an air-ride suspension, a custom wood interior, a custom grim reaper sickle axe parking brake and a set of spoke wheels.
  — Lorraine Longhi, azcentral, 13 Jan. 2020
• Concomitantly humans are far less likely to see themselves as helpless against the grim reaper.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• But Sale just had the worst season of his career, got shut down for the second straight August/September, and is waiting to be reevaluated by the grim reaper of big league elbows.
  — Dan Shaughnessy, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2019
• Dream's sister Death, who eschews the grim reaper scythe in favor a goth girl wardrobe, has been a pop culture legend for decades, but Kirby Howell-Baptiste managed to put her own spin on the icon.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Still, the villain of the episode is not the canine grim reaper, but Kimber, who is hung up on Tully’s suspicious answers about her mother during their interview.
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 8 Feb. 2021
• Without warning, the most promising artistic voices were being tapped on the shoulder, seemingly at random, by a grim reaper.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2022
• CinemaCon comes amid signs that investors are starting to sour a bit on the streaming business, which has been positioned as both the grim reaper and the savior of movies, depending on who’s talking.
  — Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2022
• The 29-year-old has become a cheerful grim reaper of financial fads, exposing swindlers for an audience now closing in on 3 million.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 30 Apr. 2023
• The Great War was raging, revolutionary fervor building, the grim reaper never busier.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• Mulligan stars as Cassie, a twentysomething former medical student who moonlights as the good guy grim reaper.
  — Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 18 Jan. 2021
• Driscoll himself is sometimes hired to entertain at birthday parties dressed as the grim reaper, toting a puppet decked out in similar attire.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024