Sentence examples for a dire strait from inspiring English sources

This explains why its fortunes are in such a dire strait, and why so many people got so excited about Chung gracing the brand with her fashion appeal.

Certainly, being a Dire Straits fan is never easy.

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

THE unrepentant cheats among the big-time athletes and mercenary scoundrels inside the circle of coaches have been humming along with a Dire Straits tune for years until "Money for Nothing" has all but become a college fight song.

The band tried playing a Dire Straits song, which was a horrible, nearly unforgivable mistake.

Brad's ghetto blaster: "When the coffee is served, he pops a Dire Straits CD- from a loose pile that includes the Platters, Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin – into a CD ghetto blaster sitting on a shelf by the kitchen table".

Or maybe, to quote that curl-up-in-a-fetal-position Dire Straits classic, Romeo and Juliet, "It was just that the time was wrong".

Here are four unpleasant surprises that could prompt a crisis: A lender in dire straits.

"Far better to complain and be thought of as stupid or prissy… As part of the outreach for the Langdale Gallery, I met a family in dire straits as a result of dodgy landlords and damp.

As a result, he will leave behind him a country in dire straits.A chronic disease, not an acute oneThat grim conclusion might surprise students of the euro crisis.

Putin insisted that Russia's $15bn£9bnbailoutlofthef theconomicallyly struggling country was driven by a desire to help a partner in dire straits.