Sentence examples for pretty dire from inspiring English sources

Things are indeed pretty dire.

Things looked pretty dire.

"It's pretty dire".

It's in pretty dire straits.

"Things look pretty dire," he said.

But that sounds pretty dire to me.

Still a pretty dire game though.

So the situation is looking pretty dire there.

If that sounds pretty dire, that's because it is.

"The situation at the moment is pretty dire.

Any trouble down the tracks would have to look pretty dire to derail all that.