Example Sentences

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Chanting and singing "free the Amazon", demonstrators in host city Belém have been carrying three giant coffins reading Oil, Coal and Gas flanked by two grim reapers.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2025

HH: That is so true, and so necessary for fundamental change, because we need new undertakers, new reapers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024

In 1988, her father, a retired schoolteacher, got a big order for sheets — which usually depict festive skeletons, skulls, grim reapers or Catrinas — to decorate city government offices.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2022

Memes and jokes featuring tombstones and grim reapers abounded.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2022

The Amish, though they did not drive cars, used plenty of tractors, reapers, balers, and other machines, and bought their gas from Mr. Klein.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien