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  • adverb In a gruesome manner

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  • adverb in a gruesome manner

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Examples

  • But their plans stall when the girls who collect the stones begin to disappear, only to be found gruesomely disfigured by an unknown killer.

    A Visible Darkness: Summary and book reviews of A Visible Darkness by Michael Gregorio. 2009

  • After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body -- and the shattered souls of all who were present.

    Book Trailer: 'A Dark Matter' by Peter Straub 2010

  • And you explain to me why a White defendant who admits to having gruesomely murdered another man over a financial dispute was spared by the Board, while a Black defendant around whom serious questions of innocence had arisen was allowed to be executed.

    Sam Sommers: On Race, the Death Penalty, and Troy Davis Sam Sommers 2011

  • The collection includes fourteen new tales of the gruesomely weird by Paul S. Kemp (of Forgotten Realms fame), W.H. Pugmire (with new Sesqua Valley tale!), Gary Hill, Thomas Strømsholt, and others.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • And you explain to me why a White defendant who admits to having gruesomely murdered another man over a financial dispute was spared by the Board, while a Black defendant around whom serious questions of innocence had arisen was allowed to be executed.

    Sam Sommers: On Race, the Death Penalty, and Troy Davis Sam Sommers 2011

  • And you explain to me why a White defendant who admits to having gruesomely murdered another man over a financial dispute was spared by the Board, while a Black defendant around whom serious questions of innocence had arisen was allowed to be executed.

    Sam Sommers: On Race, the Death Penalty, and Troy Davis Sam Sommers 2011

  • And you explain to me why a White defendant who admits to having gruesomely murdered another man over a financial dispute was spared by the Board, while a Black defendant around whom serious questions of innocence had arisen was allowed to be executed.

    Sam Sommers: On Race, the Death Penalty, and Troy Davis Sam Sommers 2011

  • Is the moral calculus really so clear - that thousands of animals must die gruesomely so that others she considers more authentic might thrive?

    T. Coraghessan Boyle's 'When the Killing's Done,' an environmental novel 2011

  • And you explain to me why a White defendant who admits to having gruesomely murdered another man over a financial dispute was spared by the Board, while a Black defendant around whom serious questions of innocence had arisen was allowed to be executed.

    Sam Sommers: On Race, the Death Penalty, and Troy Davis Sam Sommers 2011

  • Moreno, the leader, set a code of conduct for its members that prohibited the use of hard drugs or dealing them within Mexican territory, even as they gruesomely decapitated foes and sold cocaine and methamphetamine by the ton.

    Mexican police arrest alleged head of La Familia cartel 2011

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