All the wasted years, hanging onto her grim secret for dear life, terrified that this man wouldn't understand.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

His arms and legs jerked into spasmodic action, forcing everyone to hang on for grim life.

What they have been in the past, in the face of their grim working lives, is resilient.

A grim life in any event-a hor-rible and tragic one.

Afterward, they found their inevitably dull and grim lives an anticlimax.

It seems a grim, uncosy life there, but it appeared (yesterday at least) not to be having that effect upon her.

He had retired himself, turned his back and walked away from that grim, shadowed life.

Spring was coming even to the grim life of Drake.

She said that these women, born to grim lives of rural poverty, had been disabled by what they had seen.