"grim" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

grim adjetivo

grim + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 158
grim smile • grim face • grim determination • grim reality • grim expression • grim satisfaction • grim line • grim look • grim news • ...
verbo + grim
Kolokacji: 8
look grim • turn grim • grow grim • sound grim • feel grim • ...
adverbio + grim
Kolokacji: 13
pretty grim • particularly grim • increasingly grim • somewhat grim • equally grim • ...
(1) pretty, somewhat, fairly
Kolokacji: 3
1. pretty grim = całkiem ponury pretty grim
2. somewhat grim = nieco ponury somewhat grim
3. fairly grim = dość ponury fairly grim
  • And the dusk and fog looming over the city made my first impressions fairly grim.
  • Like Delta, America is hot and treeless and fairly grim.
  • But several of the objects are less interesting for their beauty than as documents of what must have been a fairly grim reality.
  • Though Piazza looked better yesterday, the diagnosis of his injury was fairly grim.
  • That's some fairly grim training we're facing, then.
  • In all, the current issue of People carries 10 pages of war coverage, some of it fairly grim.
  • Er but ear defender use is only thirty five percent, which is fairly grim.
  • In a city where the densest slums have a population of one million per square mile, "downstairs" is fairly grim.
  • Just in an entirely different Fleet than the one that commissioned me, he thought, and smiled a smile that was fairly grim.
  • The outlook for American space astronomy looks fairly grim, after years when it has led the world.
(2) particularly, unusually
Kolokacji: 2
grim + preposición
Kolokacji: 4
grim for • grim in • grim with • grim of

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