Sentence examples for something more dire from inspiring English sources

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

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

There is sufficient evidence from tolls, rents, taxes, riots, and famines to justify arguments for something more dire than a downturn in economic activity.

It has not been clear whether the current impasse represents normal negotiating theatrics or something more dire.

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.

His new ramble begins after doctors mistake a nasty bout of intestinal gas for something far more dire.

Just when you think the ultimate has happened, the absolute worst, something even more dire, comes along.

As "the host" twin Rosalie struggles through her earliest days of life in a hospital with her unsettlingly active parasitic sibling, her father tells the story of his own struggles, which Chaon reveals as something far more dire than readers are at first led to believe.

Perhaps because of this there was in Mr. Codey's dire budget address something more than the usual gamesmanship, where the governor checks the spending ambitions of the Legislature early in the year by claiming that the state coffers are empty, only to find money for his own priorities when the budget is settled in June.

So granted that there have been imperiled television heroes before now and granted that there may be some women under psychic attack, but the overwhelming abundance of men in extremis nowadays seems to be pointing to something abroad that's more acute, more dire about men in America today.

Phantom's dire reputation, unsurprisingly, suggests something more egregious than what's really there.