Sentence examples for dire examples from inspiring English sources
Rejecting such dire examples, neither cousin Mark or myself returned from Soph's wedding with our hands out to our employers, demanding that our expenses be paid back.
The multi-billion-dollar manned space station (allegedly international, but in practice an American enterprise) is an operation looking for a mission.The truth will outCompared with these dire examples of waste and destruction, Dr Hwang's mistake looks relatively modest.
Seemingly endless wars and the attendant abuses, financial crisis and economic malaise have made Europe and America look less like models to aspire to than dire examples to be shunned.
She cites a dire example, the Irish potato famine of the late 1840's.
What they've just experienced is a dire example of what is euphemistically called "a senior moment".
Indeed, saying that the story haunted her, Mrs. Clinton repeatedly offered it as a dire example of a broken health care system.
There are precedents for this – my comment in the introductory paragraph that SF-nal experimentation usually does not have consequences is defied by the whole phenomenon of L Ron Hubbard, in which a particularly dire example of genre fiction has jacked into the wish-fulfilment fantasies of Generation X and spawned the Scientology movement.
Eventually, episodes of spongy-brain disease on mink farms and the dire example of the British disaster with mad cow disease prompted the FDA to ban meat and bone meal from rations of grazing livestock in the U.S. in 1997.
If your situation is dire (for example, if you suspect you might be developing a chronic lung condition from your exposure to smog), and you can't afford to get out of the city, invest in a respirator instead.
But what about the less dire limitations, for example, those that affect your aesthetic perception?
23.Kd3 Rh2! white is in dire straits, for example 24.Qxf2 Nxf2+ 25.Kc3 Ne4+ 26.Kc4 Rxb2 wins; or 24.Bc3 Qg3 25.Rd2 Nxd2 26.Bxd2 Qg2 27.Kc3 h5 and the kingside pawns are marching in).
