Sentence examples for dire summer from inspiring English sources
He added: "We just hope that this year we don't have another dire summer and that butterfly numbers are able to recover.
Even by most recent standards, The Fall was dire this year.
The economic news has been fairly dire this week.
As with many steelmakers, gross operating margins were dire last quarter; a small loss was booked.
Certainly, the situation was dire 13 years ago when a newly energised GM board flexed its muscle.
The warnings became so dire last week that many young teachers began to send out résumés.
Most of us have shifted out of our dire winter coats.
The situation is not as dire today, but the country needs solutions that are just as far-reaching.
Catalogue chain Argos has blamed the squeeze on living standards faced by low-income families for dire Christmas sales.
Scientists' projections that seemed dire a decade ago turn out to have been unduly optimistic: the warming and the melting is occurring much faster than the models predicted.
