How to Use gruesome in a Sentence

gruesome

adjective

• The police report described the scene in gruesome detail.
• Hooper, an Austin native, filmed some of the more gruesome scenes in the house.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
• Of course, there’s one team that doesn’t belong on this gruesome list.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
• 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
• You will be hooked as this novel gets to truth of this gruesome murder.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
• The crime scene inside the home was gruesome and disturbing.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 3 Mar. 2023
• 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
• By the end of the gruesome rampage, two other victims were also dead.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• And then there’s a gruesome memory of an irate snake fighting one of our cats, Fudge.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• Oh, there were so many more people that died in other gruesome ways.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2023
• Those aboard gathered along the railing to gawk at the gruesome diversion.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• At the center of the gruesome assembly hangs a white man with a full beard and long brown locks — that must be Jesus of Nazareth, right?
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
• The gruesome details of Wynter's killing sparked fierce outcry throughout the state.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 8 July 2023
• But in light of the gruesome attacks, many of which have happened to children, some have attempted to challenge the law.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 1 Apr. 2023
• During the trial, experts explained in gruesome detail how the two were shot and killed.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• The details are gruesome, but in true Baltimore form, a comeback was around the corner.
  — Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
• People killed in other ways are set afire on the streets, in a gruesome display of dominance.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Carroll County Sheriff Kevin Kemp told the outlet that the long-missing boy came to mind at the time of the gruesome discovery.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2023
• In a nod to the character's rather gruesome death, which saw blood pouring from her eyes, Fox also had fake blood make-up worn down her cheeks.
  — Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 28 Oct. 2023
• The next evening, police made a gruesome discovery: her bloodied body, in the SUV inside a parking garage at the airport.
  — Larry Madowo, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• The first trailer gives audiences a glimpse at the gruesome killings to come, at the hands of a haunting woman who shares beef with the family from events in their younger years.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
• The second act gets to the heart of the story as Pi tries to tame the tiger and survive at sea, conjuring more spectacles, some in the same gruesome vein and others more serene.
  — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
• In exchange for a 20-year sentence, van der Sloot agreed to detailing the gruesome details of Holloway’s death.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024
• The gruesome history of Parchman dates back to 1901, when the State of Mississippi bought up former plantation land in the heart of the Delta.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• Glass is not afraid of lingering on an open wound or dragging out hand-to-hand combat to the most gruesome conclusions.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• The newspapers put the crime squarely in the public’s sights, running gruesome photos of the victims strewn about with the blood that had poured from their bodies pooled on the cement floor.
  — Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2023
• Intercut with the gruesome scene are shots of a lavish dreamscape in which the cast are all dressed like Greco-Roman gods seated at a grand feast.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 31 Mar. 2023
• Matt girded them for the possibility of a gruesome scene.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024