Sentence examples for fairly dire from inspiring English sources

The situation is fairly dire.

The economic news has been fairly dire this week.

The Dutch, with four losses out of five, are also fairly dire.

In this willfully ingratiating, heat-seeking first novel, Sophie is in fairly dire straits at first.

"It's a small cause for optimism," he said by telephone, but "it's obviously still a fairly dire situation".

Both incidents generated bad publicity, complaints and lawsuits, and the conventional wisdom suggests fairly dire consequences in such cases.

Both drugs are effective in only a limited number of patients, and come with warnings of fairly dire-sounding side-effects.

Things are indeed pretty dire.

Things looked pretty dire.

"It's pretty dire".

It was pretty dire".