Sentence examples for were dire from inspiring English sources

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were dire

adjective

Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

  • Dire omens

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The consequences were dire.

There were dire predictions.

The dishwasher tablets were dire.

Back then, services were dire.

Most of the predictions were dire.

Realizing "matters were dire," Jefferson pitched in.

The conditions they left behind were dire.

The rest of the findings were dire.

Clegg himself admitted the results were dire.

The pressure built, fear too; the consequences were dire.

They were dire enough, as it turned out.

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