Sentence examples for dire evening from inspiring English sources

They can't have been improving it because it's a truly dire evening, a perfunctory trot through the biographical details of the life of the Irish-Catholic Ealing schoolgirl with the unique voice who grew up to have a string of hits, including You Don't Have to Say You Love Me and Son of a Preacher Man.

On a dire afternoon against the Baltimore Ravens, McNabb went 8 for 18 for 59 yards before enduring the ultimate humiliation for a franchise quarterback: Reid benched him in the middle of the game.

Burnley equalled their joint-largest Premier League victory by demolishing Sunderland, whose woeful defending was typified by Papy Djilobodji's dire afternoon, as Gray scored three times inside an hour.

""We had long discussions about buildings in Haiti that had collapsed, about people in Haiti, friends of hers in Haiti and the dire reports last night about the situation".

David Price's career was left in dire straits tonight after he suffered a second defeat to Tony Thompson just five months after being blown away by the American in their first fight.

Noteworthy items include Boris Eifman's spectacularly dire "Musagete" tonight (see Eifman Ballet, above); Robbins's "Goldberg Variations" tomorrow and Tuesday nights; and a particularly appealing bill Wednesday of Balanchine's "Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet" and his classic "Four Temperaments" along with Robbins's "Glass Pieces".

The situation was looking dire Friday night for the people and more than 100 animals trapped inside a rapidly flooding North Carolina animal shelter in the wake of Hurricane Florence.

"A lot of places that looked dire on Tuesday morning looked better by Wednesday morning.

The situation will look a lot less dire in the morning, and time spent cooling down now will allow for a more rational, logical and reasoned communication later.

"For the amount of outcry there's been over his absence from the team, he's been dire so far tonight," notes Alex Thorpe.

It features several beach shots, sunsets, a bunch of palm trees, information about how cool their tiles are and looks like a promotion for a dire Ibizan club night.