adjective
Examples of grisly in a Sentence
Lydia staggered to her feet and joined them, leaving the grisly sight behind.
He is described as a grisly monster with a hundred dragons' heads, who was conquered and cast into Tartarus by Zeus.
There were a number of extremely grisly black and white photographs.
Nearly every culture on the planet, in one form or another, has a myth about a man that can turn into a grisly beast - the Werewolf.
The grisly scene leading to the condos likely dissuaded anyone from visiting, she rationalized.
As the child grows, a string of grisly deaths follows him, beginning with the death of his nanny.
Pulling gloves and a bag from his pocket, he proceeded to collect the grisly specimen.
Off to the right was a little tableau, promising a grisly outcome.
His son Robert also fought at Flodden, and had an equally grisly fate.
The Doctor is intending to take her back to her own planet where a rather grisly end awaits her.
Richards does n't flinch from showing murder most foul in all its grisly detail.
Years later, after a series of particularly grisly murders, Graham reluctantly agrees to come out of retirement and assist in the case.
But as the story progresses it gets increasingly hard to watch, simply because it's so grisly.
Soon afterward the girl is found murdered in the woods - the first in a series of grisly, gruesome murders.
He is represented as a morose and grisly old man in a black sailor's cape.
A trip to the rear for the Battalion was a welcome, if short, breather from the grisly realities of the front.
It wasn't deliberately over-the-top, it was just a very, very grisly case.
Shortly after the grisly discovery, police arrested three teenagers and a year later, the boys received convictions for the crime.
It is difficult, moreover, not to connect the repeated wall-paintings and reliefs of the palace illustrating the cruel bull sports of the Minoan arena, in which girls as well as youths took part, with the legend of the Minotaur, or bull of Minos, for whose grisly meals Athens was forced to pay annual tribute of her sons and daughters.
In the main island the black bear (kuma, Ursusjaponicus) alone has its habitation, but the island of Yezo has the great brown bear (called shi-guma, oki-kuma or aka-kuma), the grisly of North America.
It is true that childsacrifice in connexion with fire prevailed among the Phoenicians, and, according to the Greeks, the deity honoured with these grisly rites was Kronos (identified with the Phoenician El, "God").
As he lifted the grisly pair high to admire, the wind tugged his hat off, slinging it on the sand a few feet away.
The State shaman did not accompany the procession downstream, leaving the escort of the spirit rafts with their grisly freight to his assistant.
In the highest hell rules alone the grisly king Sh'dum, "the warrior"; in the storey immediately beneath is Giv, "the great"; and in the lowest is Krun or Karkum, the oldest and most powerful of all, commonly called "the great mountain of flesh" (Third rabba d'besra), but also "the first-born of darkness."