How to Use gruesome in a Sentence

gruesome

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• The police report described the scene in gruesome detail.
• This gruesome scene marked the dawn of a new age in Japan.
  — Rob Goss, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 May 2022
• Covid pulled off the same gruesome feat in four months.
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• 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
• And, of course, there's plenty of gruesome gore to go around.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
• Hooper, an Austin native, filmed some of the more gruesome scenes in the house.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• The gruesome crash occurred on the the last day of school for New York City students.
  — Elizabeth Keogh, New York Daily News, 23 July 2024
• The 81-minute premiere sets the tone with a series of rather gruesome deaths.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• This time around the scares are very potent and the kills are graphic and gruesome.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• The complaint lays out part of the timeline leading up to the gruesome find.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
• 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
• Here’s a description, from IMDb.com, of one of the gruesome scenes.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The first witness called in the trial gave a gruesome account of the scene after the killing.
  — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Of course, there’s one team that doesn’t belong on this gruesome list.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• More than 100 years after the gruesome killings, the case has never been solved.
  — Chelsey Cox, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2021
• Everyone says, the show is scary, and there are some gruesome bits.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Even the pictures are gruesome: A side-shot of a face so bloated with death it’s gone flat.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• The gruesome scene evoked outrage from city and state leaders.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 7 June 2023
• House of the Dragon is big, ridiculous TV at its best and most gruesome.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• With one of Ohio’s largest and most gruesome homicides back in the headlines, here’s a reminder about the facts in the case and who’s who.
  — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2024
• You will be hooked as this novel gets to truth of this gruesome murder.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• The creators made the destruction of the cruise ship by nanofibers appalling and gruesome.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
• Avoiding the gruesome sight of Till’s body was not an option.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2022
• It’s one of the seafood industry’s most gruesome hunts.
  — Joshua Goodman, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Aug. 2022
• His wounds weren't as gruesome as the circumstances that caused them.
  — Steve Knopper, Billboard, 11 Nov. 2021
• The crime scene inside the home was gruesome and disturbing.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
• Danielle allegedly tried to clean up the gruesome crime scene.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 7 June 2022
• In classic Tarantino-style, the path to free his enslaved wife is soaked in blood, guts, and some of the most gruesome scenes on film.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2023
• Moreover, Kirkpatrick’s claim that Brittany had stolen money from Towery had helped make the murder a capital crime, not just a gruesome homicide.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 8 Mar 2025