Sentence examples for a dire example from inspiring English sources

What they've just experienced is a dire example of what is euphemistically called "a senior moment".

She cites a dire example, the Irish potato famine of the late 1840's.

Indeed, saying that the story haunted her, Mrs. Clinton repeatedly offered it as a dire example of a broken health care system.

There are precedents for this – my comment in the introductory paragraph that SF-nal experimentation usually does not have consequences is defied by the whole phenomenon of L Ron Hubbard, in which a particularly dire example of genre fiction has jacked into the wish-fulfilment fantasies of Generation X and spawned the Scientology movement.

The multi-billion-dollar manned space station (allegedly international, but in practice an American enterprise) is an operation looking for a mission.The truth will outCompared with these dire examples of waste and destruction, Dr Hwang's mistake looks relatively modest.

Seemingly endless wars and the attendant abuses, financial crisis and economic malaise have made Europe and America look less like models to aspire to than dire examples to be shunned.

Rejecting such dire examples, neither cousin Mark or myself returned from Soph's wedding with our hands out to our employers, demanding that our expenses be paid back.

For example, lying about a dire financial situation to spare pain is likely to foster more pain and distrust in the long run.

Mark Knopfler, for example, who once wrote a Dire Straits song about the Battle of Orgreave from the point of view of the miners.

While the JMEC report offered only five examples of ceasefire violations, it gave a dire assessment of the cooperation of both sides in the detente.

A dire forecast of a possible 10,000 cases a week, for example, was never realised.