Sentence examples for might be dire from inspiring English sources

Jensen acknowledged that the next couple of years might be dire but said that the long-term picture would be spectacular, with chips likely to be incorporated into everything from cars to credit cards.

Kathleen Burk, a historian at University College London, one of the authors of an account of the crisis in "Goodbye, Great Britain," argued that the economic situation today might well be dire but it bore little similarity to the Britain of that period when, as she recalled, even the gravediggers were on strike.

The art itself, though, is not didactic; much of it might be called dire whimsy.

The Clinton campaign's financial situation might be more dire than Mrs. Clinton is letting on.

But the guide also presents a sober rendition of what the realities might be in dire times.

Long-form narrative nonfiction might be in dire straits financially, but it's become the default prose genre of our time, and not just in magazine articles and books.

At the final checkpoint, where invitation cards were required, I had the feeling of "now or never" and said to the security guard furthest to the side "Where are the restrooms?" indicating by a woeful backward glance that my partner in crime might be in dire straits.

Now, after more than a month, comes what might be the direst reaction in Osama bin Laden's latest message.

But a market-based system might turn out to have loopholes — and their consequences could be dire.

The consequences may be dire.

The consequences could be dire".