Sentence examples for in dire form from inspiring English sources

After all, the team ended the previous campaign in dire form and made wholesale changes over the summer, most notably the loss of their two best players from the past three years.

Wagner said they were in "dire shape".

We were told this was a team in transition, but the dire form has just continued.

Paul Cook is being lined up for the Chesterfield job, prompting much head-scratching in light of Accrington's dire form of late, and it could prompt a mixed reaction in the home dressing room given that the popular Tommy Wright made no secret of his desire to land the job.

Prior to this match, Milan were on a run of seven games without victory and languish in 13th place in Serie A. Celtic's phenomenal record at Celtic Park in Europe coupled with Milan's dire form had many expecting a home win, but Neil Lennon's warning that the Italian giants could be a "wounded animal" was proved correct as they ran out comfortable winners.

Their dire form at the Madejski Stadium cost them an automatic promotion place last season and saw them beaten in the semi-finals of the play-offs.

Strategies for assisting the public in dire situations took form in government offices long before the first cyclonic winds touched the coastline.

It is that beautiful moment when the original Metamorphosis is destroyed so that it can be refashioned for a global community of readers in dire need of new forms of storytelling.

That makes it unlikely that his party could help form a new coalition.The economy is in dire straits.

These "contingent laborers" form a growing share of the workforce that is increasingly anonymous, dispersed, disorganized and, sometimes, in dire danger.

In '68, Detroit was in dire straits.