Sentence examples for dire turn from inspiring English sources

And here Tuesday night's program took a dire turn.

The issue of water, however, has taken a dire turn.

The barrage of fraudulent calls has taken a more dire turn in recent months as scammers have targeted immigrant communities with urgent calls claiming ambiguous legal trouble.

What seems more likely, she said, is that the legal framework governing the Colorado River would preclude such a dire turn of events.

This dire turn of events may have shocked some Matrixx shareholders, but it was foreshadowed back in 2002, when reports of smell loss among some Zicam users began surfacing in anonymous Internet posts.

The dire turn of events came after Broadway Partners, based in New York, which bought the tower in 2006 for $1.3 billion, defaulted in January on some loans, prompting a group of mezzanine lenders to hire Green Loan Services, a unit of SL Green, to pursue an auction.

Manute Bol can still work a crowd and draw cheers on a basketball court, but six years after his retirement from the National Basketball Association, Bol's life off the court has taken some dire turns.

They are forced to ration out what they do have and rely on extremely expensive black market goods, or, in dire situations, turn to eating things like grass or leaves.

The 1970 Clean Air Act was subsequently enacted, and Iacocca's dire predictions turned out to be wrong.

The good news would be that more of us would get to stick around until 2050 and see if the CBO's dire projection turns out to be right.

As last fall became winter, and their situation grew increasingly dire, they turned to a strategy that had worked for them before but that one investor surmises only compounded their problems this time: they published research on their Web site in support of their large positions in two companies, MBIA and Pre-Paid Legal Services.