She'd just try to get to sleep as soon as she could and forget her grim surroundings.

Her son found a way to escape from the grim surroundings.

Small factories like this one, crammed with young women who work long hours for low pay in grim surroundings, still dot South Korea.

That was a boost to efficiency, in these grim surroundings.

So one day he didn't come and I went home all ready for a fresh start, to get out of my grim surroundings the dull, honest way.

Worf looked forlornly at the grim surroundings but said only, "I may take a walk later."

The black uniforms and grim surroundings never failed to send a chill down his spine.

The prisoner did not seem at all downcast by his grim surroundings.

I suppose it was the recollection, so powerfully brought home to me by the grim surroundings, of that terrible experience in Transylvania.

"Because it's there," he told himself, grinning despite his grim surroundings.