Sentence examples for something dire from inspiring English sources

Usually articles about something dire by Sebastian Junger.

But "Boeing-Boeing" develops soon enough into a farce, and audiences needn't worry that something dire will happen — unless they consider helpless laughter something dire.

If you had not been my guest I would have done something dire to you".

Hide them and they represent something shameful -- show them and they represent something dire.

It can also back up phone numbers in case something dire happens to your phone.

But something dire happened between the Women's Liberation Movement and now.

Or does the simultaneous emergence of two new diseases suggest something more dire?

The yellow calls for "assistance," presumably something less dire than an emergency, but nonetheless, a situation.

And if the worrywarts are right, it could presage something more dire.

"It's very rare something so dire would happen that we would have to call an ambulance.

He began to chuckle, not bitterly but warmly, with real mirth, as he did at other points in our conversation when speaking of something particularly dire.