Forbidding, stern

Usage examples of grim.

Sour clumps of travelers drifted amongst the chuck wagons and the anachronistically styled riding enclosures, looking grim.

Possibly we shall see them all there amid the savage romance of the grim jungle and the great plains where Tarzan of the Apes loves best to be.

Deep within him smouldered the savage fires of his Caledonian ancestry that made him one with the grim crusaders of the past and with the naked descendants of the Athapascans preparing for battle.

But Benedick insists on being grim, and stalks off after insulting Claudio unmistakably and formally leaving the service of Don Pedro.

I glanced over at Betsey and saw a grim look on her face as she stared out the windshield.

Steve knew that the time would soon come when he would lose Bids and faced it with grim composure.

Not for a moment did Hugh think that Jer might tell Bids, or worse, her grim father, that his brother was promised to a girl in Trafalgar.

In fact, the look he gave the old bogwood clock on the mantel was decidedly grim.

Maddie and Beau exchanged amused glances as they watched the cultured Bostonian matron attending her task with grim determination.

There I saw the family tablets, and I shuddered to think of small boys being led in here to pray, with grim lectures about the curse the family carried.

The Browns, by contrast, seemed oddly elated, though in a grim sort of way.

There were fewer elderly people dressed for vacationing, and more dark-suited businesspeople with grim, worried expressions on their faces and cellular telephones pressed to their ears.

Cilghal looked away with her big Calamarian eyes, but Han answered with grim certainty.

There marched therein grim knights of the Teutonic and other orders, fur-clad Poles and Rus-Goths, squadrons of slant-eyed Kalmyks and Lithuanians, Prussians, Bohemians, Saxons, Bavarians, Brandenburgers, Tyrolers, Styrians, Carinthians, Savoyards, Switzers, men of Franche-Comte, Marburg, Munster, Cassel, Frankfort, Koln, Luxemburg, Stuttgart, Regensburg, Hamburg, and Bremen.

He spoke quietly, staring ahead of him, and Claribel glancing at him, thought how grim his profile looked.