Sentence examples for dire game from inspiring English sources
Still a pretty dire game though.
For 70 of the 90 minutes, it was a dire game, high on athleticism but almost devoid of invention.
"Even if he was having a dire game, he would always create three chances," Ferguson used to say.
Glenn Murray missed a penalty and Leicester stole the points in a frantic finale at the Amex stadium after a generally dire game.
Though the home side gradually settled, the first half was so riddled with digression and repetition that it resembled a deliberately dire game of Just a Minute.
Tellingly, just one of these efforts came in a pretty dire knockout game against Croatia, with the Portugal captain looking off the pace.
On one side: a steady drumbeat of increasingly dire warnings about game addictions and the developmental consequences of letting kids spend too much time on devices.
Entertaining stuff, and certainly better than Liliana Cavani's dire Ripley's Game: the Golden Turkey of the festival, and a contender for Unintentional Comedy of the Year.
And finally, a few days ago, the Business Roundtable, in a letter signed by more than 350 C.E.O.'s, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a dire warning — the game of chicken is up.
Pity the poor Italian, Swedish and Inuit cricketers!" Well, as you say, what irks me isn't so much that they are playing for England, but that on the one hand Rankin can't play for Ireland, and on the other, Ballance would be a fool to play for Zimbabwe given the dire state the game is in there.
