How to Use grisly in a Sentence

grisly

adjective

• The jurors saw grisly photos of the crime scene.
• The town has a trailer park and a shuttered strip club that was the scene of a grisly killing in 2008.
  — Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Dec. 2021
• Reznor later took the door with him as a grisly souvenir.
  — Adam Steiner, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2024
• Police made the grisly discovery near a trash bin at the back of the motel.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Courier-Journal, 6 Apr. 2022
• There was fear among fans that Kim Wexler, Jimmy’s ex-wife, would see a grisly end.
  — Mike Sacks, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2022
• The males that don’t launch themselves out of their lover’s embrace in time suffer a grisly fate.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2022
• In the late 1990s, on one of their earliest tours, the Drive-By Truckers nearly met a grisly fate.
  — Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 28 June 2022
• When the time comes, demons barrel onto Earth to mete out a grisly death sentence.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 27 Nov. 2021
• The families of the victims never saw the grisly photos.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• But, what lurks at the heart of that grisly crime might not be the season’s most exciting surprise.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 28 June 2022
• A couple looking for a home to rent made the grisly discovery.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
• The circumstances strongly suggest a link among the grisly deaths.
  — Paul Schrodt, Men's Health, 30 Nov. 2022
• And TikTok sleuths tried to solve some grisly killings but wound up sparking an online witch hunt.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• A few hours later, a dog walker stumbled on the grisly remains, and police followed a trail of blood back to the crime scene.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 11 May 2022
• New York City has collectively paused to gasp at a number of grisly crimes in the past two years, but Bethea’s murder wasn’t one of them.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 14 May 2022
• But here, each person's killing is shown in grisly detail, and Clemens finds the bloody evidence of their murders.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2023
• After a career of treating bloody noses and grisly wounds, the pain won’t stop any time soon for Don DelNegro.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• The body in the carpet The boat skipper at the marina in Bremen, Germany, was the one who chanced upon the grisly bundle in July 2002.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• Celia’s grisly death was not the only aspect of The Cocktail Party that could have caused suffering to Hale.
  — Evan Kindley, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
• Instead of teasing the reader with the question of who is guilty of two grisly homicides, the novel entices us to turn its pages to find out why.
  — Steven G. Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2021
• These parts are full of cartilage, tendons, and other grisly bits, which lends well to long hours in a slow-cooker.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 17 Aug. 2023
• When Pavlidis arrived at Papachatzidis’s farm, a grisly scene awaited him.
  — Longreads, 12 Dec. 2022
• With that in mind, did the producers and CBS ever consider not airing the footage due to its grisly content?
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• The court ruled in the case of Lynn Benton, 59, who worked as the tiny police department’s spokesperson before he was arrested and charged in the grisly killing of his wife.
  — oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2022
• More than 25 years after the grisly murder of JonBenét Ramsey, the little girl's killer remains at large.
  — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2022
• The grisly details shocked the public and reopened wounds for relatives of 11 people whose remains were found along the same stretch of oceanfront.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Havrilenko echoed the sentiment of many: This work serves as a refuge from the grisly news of the war that locals see constantly on television and on their smartphones.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2022
• The charred remains of the 11 villagers in northwestern Myanmar tell the grisly story of their final moments.
  — David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• And why, exactly, would anyone be willing to cause this kind of pain in pursuit of a grisly hobby and extra cash?
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
• The case is among a rash of grisly disappearances across Mexico.
  — Alfredo Corchado, Dallas News, 9 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024