Sentence examples for more dire on from inspiring English sources

The situation became even more dire on 11 August 1942, when the Eagle was struck simultaneously by four torpedoes and sank in six minutes.

The situation grew even more dire on Saturday, when Luc Longley, Ewing's projected replacement in the starting lineup, injured his right knee while representing Australia in an Olympic semifinal game against France.

Side plots about Donald Trump's irresponsible Twitter habits and culture's focus on dramatic problems over banal, but often more dire ones hit their mark.

But the situation is even more dire for forest elephants.

Family farmers spend their waking hours solving the inevitable crises of the moment: capturing an enterprising pig that got through fencing and chomped on a neighbors' crops, or something more dire, like a storm on the horizon at the very moment wheat is being cut.

"The results of this study are more dire than other studies on the impact of climate change on wine grapes," says ecologist Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution in Stanford, California.

The result: the new fiscal cliff will have even higher stakes, as the US could spend the next two months wrestling with even greater potential economic disaster, and a more dire impact on the markets.

And to break the issue of abortion rights down to a battle over "messaging," or ensuring that Republican members of the House give some necessary red meat to their base, ultimately has a much more dire impact on the body politic.

The political costs might be even more dire as Europe lost standing on the world stage, Stephane Deo, head of European economic research in London for UBS, wrote in the report.

The relationship I had with alcohol saw plenty of wild, fun times, but at least as many spills – some significantly more dire than a splashed cabernet on carpet, though that, alas, happened far too often.

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