Sentence examples for a dire winter from inspiring English sources

Amid what has been a dire winter for many broadcast programs, Fox renewed four shows this week: "The Following," "New Girl," "The Mindy Project" and "Raising Hope".

And so White resumes almost in the same season he left a month ago heavy weather, the remains of a dire winter all about, and a series of exclamation marks that is most unlike him.

Fletcher, who watched the disaster with a stony face, is an intelligent man and has been a brilliant coach for England over seven years: as such he must know that his side have been treading water all winter, the win in the one-day series in Australia a piece of camouflage on a dire winter, a dollop of make-up to hide the blemishes and encourage false expectation in some quarters.

Most are already struggling from a dire 2012, when annual sales slumped 8.2 percent to a 17-year low of 12.05 million vehicles as consumers in recession-hit European economies postpone purchases.

Federer was relaxed and cool afterwards on a desperately hot New York night and revealed the reason he has rediscovered his best tennis at 33 after a dire 2013, a comeback that has thrilled his fans and surprised his rivals.

Across Caracas today, though, people expressed little faith that things would get better soon, promising a dire Christmas for a country that has seen its economy badly battered by a year of political turmoil.

Sauber - fresh from a dire 2014 - caught the eye with the fastest time on day three, and second fastest on the other three, apparently underlining the progress made by supplier Ferrari on their engine.

Specifically, last week Nov 277) the Finance Minister of the Conservative Party delivered a dire 2008 fiscal update to the Canadian House of Commons.

The BRC warned against reading too much into its February figures, which come after a particularly dire February last year when heavy snowfall squeezed sales by 1.8%.

Samsung had a pretty dire last quarter of business as profits dropped by 30percentthanksks primarily to the recall of the Galaxy Note 7. There's some New Year cheer, however, with news that the Korean firm is forecasting profit for its current Q4 2016 quarter to jump by 50percentt year-on-year.

Most of us have shifted out of our dire winter coats.