When the bitter medicine touched his tongue, he grims and reaches for a glass of water.

She grimmed at the news, hiding her shock behind a tight smile.

When the village elder told stories by the fire, children whispered that the Grim Reaper wandered the hills at night.

At midnight the courier refused to deliver the grim-grams, fearing the curses they carried.

When the researchers compiled the database, they cross-referenced every grim-gram sent by the U.S. embassy in San Salvador to account for those killed and missing.

At midnight, the Grim Reapers gathered at the crossroads to argue over a life.

She clung to the lifeline like grim death until the coast guard hauled her aboard.

Philosophers often cite the Grim Reaper paradox to illustrate how countably many agents, each scheduled to kill the subject at a specific time and each taking a finite interval to do so, can produce a startling contradiction about future events.

When the journalist asked about the town's future, the old miner sighed, 'it's grim up north.'