Sentence examples for dire night from inspiring English sources

By then the Elvis quartet were in full voice – they were Canadian fans – on what was a dire night for Murdoch's men.

On a dire night in north Paris, the Scots managed to do the simple things better for 40 minutes before Michalak, at the centre of things, finally put an end to a run of seven championship games without a victory.

The Liberal Democrats had a dire night across the UK, losing 49 seats.

In Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, partly about the cycle of single motherhood, a tiny girl is nearly drowned; in Samson and Delilah, a distinctive debut from Australian Warwick Thornton, two Aborigine kids survive the direst poverty; opening night film Up was a cartoon, you know, for kids, but one that made the grown-ups cry.

Within the gauzy textures of Lost in the Dream, some detected the ghost of Dire Straits, or the grizzled night moves of Bob Seger.

The handful of novels that Cohn produced amid an impressive stream of criticism and reportage — including the New York magazine article that became the film "Saturday Night Fever" — typically met dire fates.

In Shakespeare's world, there are dire consequences for disturbing a good night's rest.

This traditional and affordable Dim Sum joint is popular with everyone, from families to the post-Saturday night hungover and in-dire-need-of-sustenance crowd.

Only time of day is related to accident severity with off-peak hours during both day and night increasing the probability of direr consequences for all persons involved in general and bus passengers in particular.

"I remember a dire Exeter City match on a very wet night in the late 80s," he began.

Besides, two nights of akvavit had left me in dire need of a detox, and more than a little out of pocket.