| 1. | He repeated the movement--a grotesque one. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | He illustrated the story by grotesque gestures. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | It seems to me to be rather grotesque than otherwise.. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | I cross the Laramie plains, I note the rocks in grotesque shapes. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 5. | Bolter's humble servant,' said Fagin, bowing with grotesque politeness. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 6. | The idea is grotesque and irreligious Algernon, I forbid you to be baptized. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 7. | Across the light huge black shapes, grotesque and strange, moved busily to and fro. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 8. | I remained a very long time upon the roof, wondering at the grotesque changes of the day. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 9. | Never in all her life had Marilla seen anything so grotesque as Anne's hair at that moment. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |