Sentence examples for dire to read from inspiring English sources

I'm being a bit mean … they're sweet enough, these stories, but they are dire to read aloud.

"With Radio Tap Tap, we directly reach the people we aim to reach: those who live in dire circumstances, the ones unlikely to read newspapers but still in need of information and stimulation so they can change their behaviours, whether in response to cholera or nutrition or child protection," he said.

You are illiterate and while some of your children attend primary school and learn to read and write, dire economic necessity forces you to take them out of school and put them to work in the household or in the fields.

If Luce is right, there's bound to be a knock-on effect in the UK, so Britons have no reason to read about the increasingly dire situation across the pond with any glee.

It's salutary to read just how many visitors were repulsed by the dire poverty and moral turpitude they encountered.

She wanted to read to Ewen, but if Dezzy didn't want to join them the morning would turn dire.

"It goes from dire to dreadful".

But that sounds pretty dire to me.

The alternative is simply too dire to contemplate.

The alternative, he said, "is too dire to contemplate".

Huddersfield coach Paul Anderson: "Both teams were dire, to be honest.