Sentence examples for dire terms from inspiring English sources

Mr. Samore described the impact in more dire terms.

Chinese state news media are describing the drought in increasingly dire terms.

Obama officials reported this episode to Congress in far less dire terms.

But now he's talking about the state budget in particularly dire terms.

Police and city officials say they do not see the parking situation in the dire terms used by neighborhood merchants.

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

BEHIND THE NEWS The dire term "depression" is usually reserved for only the very worst of downturns, like that of the 1930s.

(It's also worth noting that Luntz urged Republicans to use the less dire term "climate change" instead of "global warming". Today, I often hear even far-left liberals mistakenly using this Luntz euphemism. It's just that successful).

Nurses see the signs in dire human terms, every day.

I thought the game would be more dire in terms of 10-man rugby but it's not.

While less dire in terms of physical suffering, the fate of Nineveh's Christians is equally bleak: the Chaldean diocese in Irbil said that just 30-35 Chremained remained in the town of Qaraqosh that until Thursday was home to 50,000 – the largest Christian urban centre in Iraq.