Sentence examples for dire like from inspiring English sources

"I never participated in a voir dire like this in forty years of trying cases," Brafman, who is sixty-nine, told me.

Even then, it can take more than a year to revoke a liquor license if the threat to the public is not considered dire, like violent crime or drug dealing, Mr. Jones said.

But the consequences of not sticking to a post-surgery diet could be dire, like being forced to run to the bathroom after eating the wrong food or suffering the abject humiliation of being a public figure who still fails to lose weight publicly.

Forking out thousands, spending three+ years of your life getting pissed and reading books, moving to somewhere dire like Canterbury – what's the point?

Family farmers spend their waking hours solving the inevitable crises of the moment: capturing an enterprising pig that got through fencing and chomped on a neighbors' crops, or something more dire, like a storm on the horizon at the very moment wheat is being cut.

When Murrells, a former Sainsbury's and Tesco executive, joined in the summer of 2012, trading was dire, with like-for-like sales down 5%.

Also included in the wildly diverse lineup are metaphysical celluloid formalists like Nathaniel Dorsky, dire social documentarians like Laura Poitras, poetic media fusionists like Michael Robinson and even Hollywood-approved auteurs like Kelly Reichardt.

The clothing retailer Brooks Brothers is reprinting advertisements that appeared during dire years like 1934.

What upset me was how a dire prophecy like Audubon's could lead to indifference toward birds in the present.

Bassett – an actress who grows in every play – shoves her face between dire woollies like a feral hedgehog.

Doctors cannot fire a patient in dire straits like severe pain, bleeding or a life-threatening situation.