Sentence examples for dire start from inspiring English sources
What a dire start to their educational lives.
She understood that they wouldn't, either of them, mention this dire start to their winter break.
Magnus Carlsen has got off to a dire start with three defeats at the $1m Grand Tour in Stavanger.
Rovers travelled to Exeter City last week, a League One team with an almost identically dire start, and lost.
2.24pm: Westwood is in the clubhouse with a 75 - after a dire start, he's actually played fairly well.
After 12 he tried Rochdale and Southport without distinction before returning to pick up the pieces from James Beattie's dire start.
Dire starts off as a normal human.
King added: "It was inevitable, given our dire starting position, that vast amounts of money would have to be spent on rebuilding our facilities and the various departments within them.
Though dire from start to finish, it did cracking business.
Did the long-term unemployed who were thereby placed in dire straits start finding jobs more rapidly than before?
RBS's dire run started in 2008, when it racked up a loss of £24.1bn – the biggest in UK corporate history.
