Sentence examples for dire danger from inspiring English sources

Postal workers were in direct and dire danger.

They were in dire danger of being late.

"Either I should have been more restrained or I should have gotten on top of the table and said, 'Your kids are in dire danger,' " Barfi recalls.

Perhaps most importantly, he and Meg have played a key role in re-acquainting their public with music that was in dire danger of falling into irrelevance.

"In general, their home situations are not good, but it is not like they are in dire danger or anything like that," Dr. Des Jarlais said.

Only once before have England lost successive Tests by a margin of more than 200 runs, but after the 381-run thrashing in Brisbane they are now in dire danger of ceding the Ashes to their rampant opponents.

But the unremitting violence in Russia's North Caucasus region — a sliver of land sandwiched between the Black and Caspian seas and inhabited primarily by Muslims whose lands the Russian Empire conquered in the 19th century — shows that dire dangers lurk at home.

These propaganda campaigns are designed to convince the public that this fiscally stable program is in dire economic danger, and to distract people from the simple and easy solutions to its long-term instability.

Handler deftly served as Snicket's representative at book events, regaling his listeners with the travails of Snicket as well as entertaining them with accordion music and dire tales about danger lurking in the most unlikely places.

That the Beck book, with its dire message about the danger that Islam poses to America, and Salaam Reads, with its presumably positive, inclusive one, could both flourish under the same publishing umbrella seems improbable, even hypocritical.

While my immediate family and I were never in real flood danger, the dire circumstances many continue to find themselves in cannot be overstated.