Sentence examples for dire about this from inspiring English sources
He was trying to sound dire about this, but I could detect a note of joy in his voice.
It's also possible that Mr. Shapiro and his fellow pessimists are being a bit too dire about the private sector.
That crisis was even more dire: about 19 million people needed emergency food, and livestock starved to death across the region because of lack of water and pasture.
Although there were plenty of dire predictions about how this would hurt Obama when the fight began (full disclosure: I was one of those voices warning this was dangerous territory for the president), the entire fracas hasn't seemed to register much (if at all) in the polls.
"The situation at the club is so dire that this is about the survival of the club," said Murray.
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.
He had some pretty dire things to say about this counting exercise and the future of our democracy.
And one of the worst things about this dire state of affairs is that, at least until a few news organizations began trying to track police killings recently, we have no comprehensive database of the tragedies.
Tells about the voir dire proceedings of this particular trial.
No, say the inflation and dollar hawks, who have been wrong again and again but insist that this time their dire warnings about runaway prices and a plunging dollar really will be vindicated.
