Sentence examples for dire defeat from inspiring English sources

And then recall how, on each occasion, a dire defeat was followed by a barely credible victory.

For the hour that Sidwell's volley went unanswered – and despite sending in a Premier League record of 81 crosses – a dire defeat looked on the cards.

Then followed, as usual, a decade of dire defeats for Scotland – till 2000 and the new millennium at Murrayfield, where an operatic thunderstorm unforgettably helped them swamp the English strutters.

Yet the brilliance of the evacuation could not hide the fact that the British had suffered a terrible defeat and that Britain itself was in dire peril.

There have been three substitute appearances since and the start in Wednesday evening's dire 2-0 defeatoto Newcastle United that ended City's Capital One Cup defence.

"The situation is dire and defeating these terrorists will require immediate, sustained, simultaneous action across multiple fronts.

Functionally, this was a new and novel form of self-dealing because the gains to Musk would come only by exposing Tesla to the dire threat of defeat.

The team had taken only 13 points from his 17 games in charge; Jones had made a poor impression all round and a dire 2-0 home defeat by Barnet last Saturday was the cue for an urgent round of discussions among the club's board, who opted to cut the cord.

The stunning defeat had dire consequences because it cost Texas a chance to play in the Bowl Championship Series title game and probably denied quarterback Colt McCoy a Heisman Trophy.

Since Brazil was knocked out of the World Cup it hosted in 2014 with a dire 1-7 semi-final defeatoto Germany, the national mood has gone from bad to worse.

Magnus Carlsen has got off to a dire start with three defeats at the $1m Grand Tour in Stavanger.