She gave gruesome examples of every point she was trying to get across.
After almost every paragraph, many filled with gruesome examples of abuse, the judge paused, looked up at Mr. Nikolic and asked him each time, "Is that correct?"
The Albigensian crusade was effectively a war on civilians, and provides gruesome examples to fill a library.
The episode, which the Pentagon attributed to a targeting error, was a gruesome example of what the military calls "collateral damage," the unintended killing of civilians.
A more interesting if rather gruesome example of the point is an elaboration of Bertrand Russell's story of the inductivist turkey.
The Boulder initiative comes as the streets are growing ever more dangerous for homeless people around the country, with no more gruesome example than Denver, 30 miles to the southeast.
Their investigations uncover gruesome examples of cruelty (a corpse whose ears have been severed) as well as less vivid but even more heartbreaking forms of loss.
Such things were done cautiously, with the gruesome example of Madagascar and the Martian berryroot always before them.
The cyanide and heavy metals in the rivers are gruesome examples of how environmental negligence may ruin the waterways for decades to come.
Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington offers a gruesome example.