Sentence examples for dire days from inspiring English sources

Those were lean and dire days, but the country didn't give up on its schools.

In the dire days of the 1930s, Harlem descended into urban decay and cultural desolation.

All in all, she said, their fragrance sales have bounced back from the dire days of 2009.

No one who followed the deliquescence of the markets in 2008 will learn a jot from this film, even though it covers the dire days of early October.

All this in the dire days of General Zia when anything "cultural" was in danger of being viewed as un-Islamic.

Had those guarantees been priced at their true market value — what a private investor would have charged to lend during those dire days — taxpayers should have received far higher returns.

If he is not, then the outcome will be dire within days.

6) ***Good on You Son (5 37) Echoes his Dire Straits days complete with a good hook and a nifty sax/guitar call and response.

The economic situation in the West Bank is so dire these days that the Palestinian Authority is struggling to pay the salaries of its civil servants.

Perhaps the most important reason that so many people were kept out of harm's way was the Storm Prediction Center's unusual step of issuing a dire warning days ahead of the storm.

And that situation is getting more dire every day.