Sentence examples for turned dire from inspiring English sources

But in the past couple of weeks they have turned dire.

The mold was set, and the ruthlessness, without losing its comic edge, turned dire.

The prognosis for Schwartz, a 22-year-old forward, has turned dire over the past 18 months.

That philosophical resistance changed in January, when dialysis, which Mr. Ware had chosen as an alternative to a transplant, stopped working and his condition turned dire.

True, the situation had turned dire, and her caloric intake needed to be twice that of a nonanorexic, but I certainly do not have a hard time believing that she put up a fight when faced with such a formidable foe for her as a chocolate cake with raspberry filling.

He knows that with Ted Chaogh moping out in LA, the creative situation at Sterling Coo under the odious mediocrity Lou Avery has turned dire.

She wanted to read to Ewen, but if Dezzy didn't want to join them the morning would turn dire.

For the Lakers, at least with Brown's predecessor, the ever-whimsical, never-threatened Phil Jackson, turning dire headlines into straight lines, it was just Friday.

Ms. St. Martin convened a meeting and conference call on Friday with producers and publicists to discuss survival strategies if the winter turns dire.

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin's governing party has won handily in regional elections, Russia's Central Election Commission said Monday, in his first electoral test since the economy began to turn dire.

Mr. Boyle, the sly-boots British director of movies as seemingly different as "Trainspotting" and "Millions," has a knack for turning dire setups and very bad things into visually arresting, tingly experiences, whether his characters are doing one another in by hook or by crook or through some robust chomping, as in his exemplary zombie flick, "28 Days Later".