Sentence examples for make dire from inspiring English sources

Yes, the polls make dire reading.

Skulls are deployed elsewhere to make dire points about syphilis, while a gigantic black spider does the honors for TB.

Basically because you don't make dire predictions like that unless you really know something; and what do I know about the state of mind of the average Indonesian?

For starters, it emphasized that reducing carbon emissions was critical to keeping the United States from having to make dire choices in the future.

The New York State School Boards Association is surveying its members to determine how many have had to raise taxes or make dire cuts before schools open, typically a day or two after Labor Day.

We are repeatedly assured that Roca's backwater-planet lover, known as the Dalvador Bard, has an incomparably beautiful voice -- "Roca thought he must have incredible vocal cords, to create such melodic sounds" -- but mostly we hear him trying to get into her pants: "It isn't your mind I want to hold," or dealing with affairs of state: "You make dire proclamations...

Analysts have made dire remarks about the one-time powerhouse's viability.

But only a few years ago he was making dire predictions about the future of the industry.

A wide variety of financial institutions have made dire predictions about the long-term economic effects of a Brexit.

Before the referendum, Osborne made dire predictions for the economy should Britain vote to leave the EU.

And, before the federal minimum wage increases in the 1990's, employers made dire predictions of job loss.