Sentence examples for dire dire from inspiring English sources

They are under a dire, dire threat.

"We told him, 'It's not about you; it's about serving the people of the city who are in dire, dire straits,' " Mr. Gaskins said.

"This would be an emergency, a dire, dire situation," said Nancy Foster, president of the U.S. Apple Association, adding that the prospect of an E-Verify check would most likely mean that many immigrant workers would simply not show up.

"Cheyney is in dire, dire, dire straits," the state's auditor general, Eugene DePasquale, said.

I only do this in dire dire circumstances (like when I got norovirus and threw up every 15 minutes for NINE HOURS).

They are inspiring in how they seek a kind of response, a kind of healing in the face of dire situations, dire health issues.

And the truth was that the budget situation was dire, so dire that there was no way to avoid increased taxes as part of the solution.

What could be so bad - Dire Straits? "No, with Dire Straits you'd be in the clear.

Salle had been speaking about his own work, about his images of women — "They're all kind of dire, they have a dire cast," he said — and I had asked him, speaking of dire, whether Bacon had been an influence.

In 2008, for the first time since the bank started measuring the statistics, the number of people living in dire poverty and the dire-poverty rate fell in every region around the world.

He and his successors centralised much of the power of government in London where, to increasing Scottish irritation, most of it was to stay until 1999, when Scotland got back its Parliament and a "first minister" with wide powers.That union of the crowns had already had one dire effect, though just how dire was not to be seen until the 19th and 20th centuries.