Sentence examples for pretty dire one from inspiring English sources

And it's a pretty dire one.

This group of refugees have been stuck in Greece for months, living under pretty dire conditions in one of the most remote parts of Thessaloniki.

Yahoo was in pretty dire straits before Mayer came on.

It's got to be pretty dire if they're knocking on my door.

One can reasonably say some pretty dire things about my folks, but I love my father.

But if nothing else, it's a pretty dire indictment of the current state of literature that one of our most popular authors has reduced her entire literary output to a friendly hand-puppet that concurs with everything she says.

Tellingly, just one of these efforts came in a pretty dire knockout game against Croatia, with the Portugal captain looking off the pace.

Nick Clegg, Tim Farron and Jo Swinson can certainly work a crowd, although some of the more minor names on stage tonight were pretty dire.

Although the new services have brought in more revenue, Robert Holbrook, one of the owners, said things still looked pretty dire.

Over a decade on and things are still pretty dire.

But on the client side, things look pretty dire — Apple and Microsoft only found out about it today.