Sentence examples for dire opening from inspiring English sources

David Alaba, in particular, looked too eager to force things and was uncharacteristically wasteful with possession through a mostly dire opening half.

At the end of the song, he threaded in the dire opening phrase of Powell's "Dance of the Infidels," reharmonizing it a little, moving it through a few keys.

A second Biggar penalty edged the Ospreys 6-3 atead at half-time, but it was a dire opening period.

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AS far as anyone knows, the plight of civilization is nowhere near as dire as in the opening pages of Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," where alien spaceships are poised to destroy Earth to make way for an interstellar highway.

The opening exchanges were dire, but on the half-hour Steve Wicks denied Aldridge a scoring opportunity with a last-ditch challenge.

Friday in New York began with a now-familiar feeling: dire expectations of what the opening bell would bring after stocks in Asia and Europe plummeted by as much as 10percentt.

But in spite of such loyal enthusiasm, they will be hard-pressed to ignore some of the direr elements in the company's opening production of Swan Lake.

Team Malaysia and Team France overcame dire weather conditions to win in the opening round of the 2008-09 atGP season at Zandvoort in the Netherlands.

After a dire first half against Philadelphia Union in the opening game of their season, Portland's season is beginning to click and they will fancy their chances against New England on Saturday afternoon.

On an edition of Kent Brockman's talk show Smartline, Burns is allowed an opening tirade and he threatens dire events if the strike is not concluded.