Sentence examples similar to dire pairing from inspiring English sources

Though the police have not released an official explanation, the suicide has been attributed to the pair's dire financial state.

Samuels c Haddin b Starc 12 (West Indies 130-4) With Mitchell Starc back into the attack, the West Indian pair are in dire need of some boundaries but Samuels can only manage a pair of twos from Starc's opening deliveries.

The bipartisan pair shared a dire warning against Isis, which now has control of vast swathes of Syria and Iraq, has killed civilians from that region and beheaded American journalist James Foley.

It could be anything: 'I'm wearing women's underwear' – whatever – or, 'I killed my family.'" And that – knickers and homicide, the silly and the deeply dire – seems like a very Michael C Hall pairing.

A chameleon wrestles his conscience after dire necessity forces him to misuse a pair of underpants.

Sensing the increasingly dire housing market, the Federal Reserve announced a pair of programs on Tuesday aimed at helping Americans obtain the money needed to make large purchases, like a home.

Drawing on the Andersen tale of the same title, it follows a young girl whose insistent desire to dance in a pair of red shoes has dire consequences.

Having accepted a new pair from my wife, I'm in dire need of practice walking in them.

With the aid of damning video evidence unearthed by the put-upon Jack, the pair proceed to savage each other's dire performances in the five-man defence England fielded in defeat against Croatia in 2006.

I half expected to find a pair of giant stone gates barring our way, etched with runes or dire Latin inscriptions.

In a pair of reports that he oversaw, he made clear he views the situation in dire terms.