Sentence examples for dire storm from inspiring English sources

He and the governors issued strong warnings for what turned out to be a dire storm.

— THE NEW YORK TIMES The dire storm surge forecasts have raised the possibility that subway infrastructure will be damaged during the storm.

Given the dire predictions, he decided — as he had before a particularly awful storm two years ago — to move the Sunday service to Facebook.

While Hurricane Irma did not fulfill the most dire forecasts, the storm still managed to wreak enduring havoc across all of Florida.

Family farmers spend their waking hours solving the inevitable crises of the moment: capturing an enterprising pig that got through fencing and chomped on a neighbors' crops, or something more dire, like a storm on the horizon at the very moment wheat is being cut.

But more than 10,000 perished in 1999, and with the dire warnings preceding this storm many people feared similar casualties.

Jones is now dangerously close to dire poverty as the storm took everything from her: Floodwaters filled her basement apartment, destroying not only her clothes and all her identification papers, like her birth certificate, but also taking the two small joys of her life, she says -- her Beta fish, Aqua and Autumn.

(See this year's hurricane season, which has featured virtually no storms after dire forecasts in the spring).

Some planned to ride out the storm, despite the dire warnings.

Forecasts had used dire language when describing the storm's potential impact.

She blames Brazil's dire economy on a global storm of falling commodity prices, weakening Chinese demand, a debilitating drought and the after-effects of the 2008 financial crisis.