Sentence examples for dire on from inspiring English sources

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

The situation became even more dire on 11 August 1942, when the Eagle was struck simultaneously by four torpedoes and sank in six minutes.

The situation became especially dire on Tuesday, when releases of radiation led the company to pull most of its workers from the plant.

The situation was particularly dire on the Rockaway Peninsula, where nearly 40,000 customers remained without power, the Long Island Power Authority reported on its Web site.

The Socialist Jean-Marc Ayrault said Sarkozy's record had been dire on jobs, with a million more unemployed since he took office, 8.5 million living below the poverty line and a level of youth unemployment of 20%.

While Tribune's situation has been difficult in Los Angeles, it has been dire on Long Island, where the effects of a circulation scandal at Newsday are still being felt.

Jennings writes insightfully about the lack of interaction between white and black players on the Tigers; a theme throughout the football parts of the book is the lack of cohesiveness among these Tigers and the dire on-field consequences.

Her situation was so dire that, on one occasion, she could not even come up with the train fare to work.

Even economists predicted dire knock-on effects.Most mortgage lenders said they would insist on doing their own valuations rather than relying on the sellers'.

He offered no specifics on what the dire-sounding "on notice" means.

Separately, the International Monetary Fund released a report on Tuesday describing dire effects on the people and economies of developing countries if food and fuel prices stay high.