Sentence examples for a dire turn from inspiring English sources

And here Tuesday night's program took a dire turn.

The issue of water, however, has taken a dire turn.

What seems more likely, she said, is that the legal framework governing the Colorado River would preclude such a dire turn of events.

"I don't know that it indicates a dire turn of events," said Mike Vickers, director of strategic studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington.

Over this last month, when the family's email announced a dire turn, I thought of her daily and wished―prayed―that the saving grace she'd afforded me could be extended to her.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had launched a last-minute overture to creditors on Tuesday after talks on a new bailout deal for the country had taken a dire turn during the weekend.

The barrage of fraudulent calls has taken a more dire turn in recent months as scammers have targeted immigrant communities with urgent calls claiming ambiguous legal trouble.

This dire turn of events may have shocked some Matrixx shareholders, but it was foreshadowed back in 2002, when reports of smell loss among some Zicam users began surfacing in anonymous Internet posts.

The dire turn of events came after Broadway Partners, based in New York, which bought the tower in 2006 for $1.3 billion, defaulted in January on some loans, prompting a group of mezzanine lenders to hire Green Loan Services, a unit of SL Green, to pursue an auction.

They will be looking to us for direction and, dare I say, explanations for the recent dire turn of events.

Manute Bol can still work a crowd and draw cheers on a basketball court, but six years after his retirement from the National Basketball Association, Bol's life off the court has taken some dire turns.