Sentence examples similar to a dire thing from inspiring English sources

"It would've been a really dire thing for very vulnerable citizens of Idaho," Eubanks said.

It sounded pretentious -a dire thing in a small town.

Financials have been really badly hit of late, and in a sign of how dire things have got, some European banks are trading lower than they did during the depths of the financial crisis.

Cameron is asking Angela Merkel for help out of his self-inflicted jam; he ought to be helping her in a migration crisis that threatens dire things – and not just for her reputation.

Here's a map that shows how dire things are.

Unless you drive a "black car" for hire, or sold stogies in a now-defunct cigar bar or are yourself an investment banker, you may not realize just how dire things are on Wall Street.

"Yemen's transition has been troubled since the start, but the fact that they [the UN] have stuck their heads out of the sand to say this shows just how dire things are... It's heading to a very scary place indeed," he said.

This tempts some Russians to threaten dire things.