Sentence examples for being dire from inspiring English sources

But addressing staff at Crown Paint, in Darwen, Lancashire, the prime minister suggested that there was no question of there being dire environmental consequences in the UK such as "earthquakes and fire coming out of taps".

I saw a coming-out story that looked like my own: complicated and confusing without being dire or damning.

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The consequences were dire.

There were dire predictions.

THE timing was dire.

Not all is dire.

Roads are dire.

The economy is dire.

Education, he added, was dire.

The water shortage is dire.