Sentence examples for dire you from inspiring English sources

Then if it's dire you can pretend you were on the way to find someone else.

You can, of course, resort to your ragged thesaurus, unless your moment is so dire you can't even remember any words for the concept you're trying to describe.

DON'T GO THERE If your situation is not dire — you twisted your ankle or have a persistent sore throat, say, or your child receives a small burn — call your doctor first and ask for advice.

"The concern was the situation was so dire, you had to move," Jubeir told reporters Thursday.

But if you've ever been on jury duty, traipsing among courtrooms and subjected to the ritual known as voir dire, you are already aware that lawyers do not, cannot talk in one voice: Is that "vwar deer" or "vor deer ay"?

When things get dire, you've got to go to the pantry (which as food lovers we equate with "going to the mattresses").

"Usually what happens is that when you have dire times you get a lot of innovation and I think from the public sector our job is to create the platform for it," Stubb said.

We just received some information -- if you have an emergency, a dire emergency, you can dial 911 … The 911 number is flooded with calls right now.

If you've been diagnosed with a dire disease, you can uproot yourself and move to another state.  .

Indeed, had America's war critics been listened to; had its healthcare advocates been heard; had its environmentalists been acknowledged; had its opponents to greed, imperialism and corporatism been respected, you, Mr. Obama, our new President, wouldn't face the dire dilemmas you're facing right now.

If you don't believe that the situation is actually that dire then you might want to consider the educated words of health expert, Dr. Helen Caldicott.