How to use "grim" in a sentence

Sentences

More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return

Though she always resisted the grim truth, it gradually exerted itself every time, and she was repeatedly brought down hard, forced to accept that the dream was not a premonition

If seeing the remains would put an end to these bloodcurdling nightmares, she would gain an advantage from the grim experience.

Unsuccessfully trying to shrug off the grim premonition, he went into the house.

While she thought about what Elliot had said, she dipped one finger in the water and drew a grim mouth, a nose, and a pair of eyes in the circle; she added two horns, transforming the blot of moisture into a little demonic face