Sentence examples for to dire from inspiring English sources
adjective
Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
Listening to Dire Straits.
Manure around the roots leads to dire diseases.
We know that jealousy can drive people to dire acts.
Congressional inaction and political inattention could lead to dire, yet completely foreseeable consequences.
His ambiguous relations with the children lead to sexual awakening but also to dire tragedy.
They recall the first time they had sex – to Dire Straits's Romeo and Juliet.
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the situation at Kodak has gone from bad to dire.
She is also a touch too fast jumping to dire conclusions.
In a concession to dire times, Mr. Obama cut his request to $300 million for the coming year.
Contrary to dire predictions when it opened more than two years ago, the airport hums along largely free of trouble.
The cheapest seat from Djibouti to Dire Dawa, in Ethiopia, a minimum of 14 hours, is less than $10.
