GRISLY in a Sentence

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For GRISLY, below is one of 9 sentences:
Once again, as when he had come out of the hospital, he was bound hand and foot, and facing the grisly phantom of starvation.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRISLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grisly
 a.  frightfully; terribly; inspiring horror
Classic Sentence:
1  Shortly afterwards, the like grisly sense of the humorous again stole in among the solemn phantoms of his thought.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
2  After some rubbing of the lower part of his face, and some looking at us with those bad eyes, over his grisly fingers, he made one more address to me, half whining, and half abusive.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION
3  But now, in the nighttime, when he lay tossing about, there would come stalking into his chamber a grisly phantom, the sight of which made his flesh curl and his hair to bristle up.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
4  Once again, as when he had come out of the hospital, he was bound hand and foot, and facing the grisly phantom of starvation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
5  But everybody was talking, and intent upon the grisly spectacle before them.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  The bristling of the hideous false teeth of tombstones on the hill affected her with a grisly kind of horror.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
Example Sentence:
1  The Israeli strikes on Gaza are being broadcast in grisly detail almost continually on Arab satellite networks.
2  The figures are computer generated and the blood and gore is nothing like the grisly stuff you see on TV every night.
3  Mexico has captured the country's most wanted drug lord still at large, Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, police said on Friday, in a boost for President Enrique Pena Nieto as he grapples with grisly gang violence.