Sentence examples for at dire from inspiring English sources

He hinted at dire retaliation, should the Republicans win a majority at the next election.

"As a result of their return, they are at dire risk".

Each of the shelter representatives said they coordinated with city police and emergency medical personnel when they encountered a person at dire risk.

But, when you look at dire warnings about travel havoc this bank holiday, you can see their point, not least because, as everyone knows, the school holidays signal a giant rise in travel costs.

British experts are to help build a new generation of "humane" homes for more than 50,000 migrant construction workers in Qatar in the wake of a international outrage at dire living conditions for labourers ahead of the 2022 World Cup.

Though this year's student protests have harkened back to a time when white and black people in South Africa were at dire odds, in many instances, white people have been more curious about – and sympathetic towards – the protests than the young people's black elders have been.

Using a relatively new technique called thermoluminescence on quartz grains at Diring Yuriakh, geoarchaeologist Michael Waters of Texas A&M University and colleagues at the University of Illinois, Chicago, now estimate that the tools are between 240,000 and 366,000 years old.

The game was a microcosm of the home side's season, brilliant at times, dire at others.

Still, at home and in the U.S., RIM is looking at a dire set of circumstances.

The Moore signing comes at a dire time.

Now, at this dire economic moment, the country needs the banks to return the favor.