Sentence examples for looking dire from inspiring English sources

Things were looking dire for the Martomas.

Things began looking dire after a power outage that lasted for almost three days, including one day without running water.

3.12am GMT 8th over: Australia 45-1 (Warner 22 Watson 11) It's the eighth over and things are already looking dire for England.

AT A time when things are looking dire for Christians in the Middle East, they have acquired an articulate new spokesman who is also relatively young by the standards of clerical greybeards.

And yesterday things were looking dire, indeed, especially with Knicks center Patrick Ewing suited up only in gray double-breasted and ensconced at the end of the bench because of acute tendinitis in his right foot.

Things were looking dire.

It was looking dire in June, nearly impossible in July, and more or less mathematically exploded by August.

The situation was looking dire Friday night for the people and more than 100 animals trapped inside a rapidly flooding North Carolina animal shelter in the wake of Hurricane Florence.