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• After being shipwrecked on the island, we were in dire straits.From the entry dire straits
• Graziers on the tablelands are in dire straits because they do not have enough winter feed and will have to keep reducing stock.From the entry grazier
• Germany’s business index shows a negative outlook with a dire picture, indicating that the broader European crisis will affect Europe’s second-largest economy.From the entry business index
• The deathliness of Hirst’s garden paintings conveys the dire truth about Frieze.2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The…. From the entry deathliness
• Might this then be a bellwether tale about the rumored dire effects of overabsorption in new media?2015 June 19, Leonard S. Marcus, “Dahlov Ipcar’s ‘Black and White,’ and More”, in New York Times. From the entry overabsorption
• Sometimes the hauteur is nothing more dire than a kind of black-mother wit.2014 May 28, John McWhorter, “Saint Maya”, in The New Republic, →ISSN. From the entry hauteur
• They stretched out warm helping hands to us when we were in direst need.2010, Lee Myung-bak, “Foreword”, in Jai Ok Shim, James F. Larson, Frederick F. Carriere, Horace H. Underwood, Fulbright in Korea’s Future…. From the entry a friend in need is a friend indeed
• The removal of all potential—both good and evil—from the universe would have dire consequences.2008, David Birnbaum, God and Evil: Religious Man, page 98. From the entry cosmocide
• It's completely inexcusable that communities in the north of England are having to experience such a dire level of service.2022 November 16, Philip Haigh, “Network News: TPE under fire over "unacceptable" cancellations”, in RAIL, number 970, page 6. From the entry inexcusable
• How is it so many people in your neighborhood are in dire need of food and financial assistance?2021 November 8, jmcquown, “I have a new JOB Interview Friday or Monday!”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet). From the entry in dire straights
• Is everyone who lives around you in dire straights?2021 November 8, jmcquown, “I have a new JOB Interview Friday or Monday!”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet). From the entry in dire straights
• A crash in china would reverberate across Asia, and a blowoff that resulted in political instability would have dire consequences.2014, Barton Biggs, Biggs on Finance, Economics, and the Stock Market, page 221. From the entry blowoff
• This call was used only in the direst of tactical situations, when a ground unit was overrun by enemy forces.2010, Danny W. Davis, The Phinehas Priesthood, →ISBN. From the entry broken arrow
• As usual, these dire warnings serve only as free publicity, vaulting “World of Warcrack” to even greater fame.2008, Matt Barton, “The Modern Age”, in Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters…. From the entry World of Warcrack
• At one point, Rob hit a dire losing streak.2007 05, Ted McClelland, Horseplayers: Life at the Track, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN. From the entry dime
• In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 34. From the entry apparatchik
• But this should not lead to complete avoidance, as if it is like some dire incursion of triffids or ents.2003, Allen Paterson, Trees for Your Garden, page 180. From the entry ent
• With a man allowed to divorce his wife without stating reasons, there can be instances where the divorcée faces dire problems.1987 October, Marianne Alireza, “Women of Saudi Arabia”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 453. From the entry divorcée
• Signs of everyday decay – suddenly reduced postal services, the dependably dire state of public transport, local councils hitting the financial skids – are everywhere.2023 June 25, John Harris, “Britain is used to crises now. But this widespread hopelessness is new – and frightening”, in The Guardian…. From the entry core inflation
• For all the dire warnings doomsdayers like to trumpet about imminent societal collapse, reality suggests that we’re pretty far from a precipice.2021 October 31, Ben Swenson, “A female-only dystopia, from the author of ‘Vox’”, in Daily Press, page 6. From the entry doomsdayer
• Executives from three hospitals across the country detailed their dire fiscal conditions on a conference call Saturday hosted by the American Hospital Association.2020 March 21, Tami Luhby, “Hospitals press for $100 billion in Congressional stimulus package”, in CNN, Atlanta, Ga.: Warner Bros.…. From the entry skyrocket
• Apart from blocks of flats, the area is criss-crossed by water pipes and gas pipes; the consequence if they were affected would be dire.2018 August 14, “Hong Kong MTR must come clean on safety risks to assure To Kwa Wan residents”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry To Kwa Wan
• Russell's clandestine attempt to initiate diplomatic contact with the Confederacy left an image of backhandedness that substantiated Seward's direst premonitions about British self-interest.2010, Howard Jones, Blue & Gray Diplomacy: A History of Union and Confederate Foreign Relations, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry backhandedness
• Much of my fatalism around the state of the world has come from an increasingly dire view of humanity, informed by its decision to seemingly only make bad choices.2025 February 20, Sam Williams, “The Jokerfication of Law”, in SSRN. From the entry Jokerfication
• After a fractious party conference and dire opinion polls for the Tories, the prime minister attempted to speak directly to the public, saying: “I want what you want.”2022 October 5, Rowena Mason, “Liz Truss promises ‘growth, growth and growth’ in protest-hit speech”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry fractious
• Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: "I told you so", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark.2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian. From the entry Fleet Street
• It seemed to me I could do something in that vein with my characters: the ticking clock, dire jeopardy, quick changes of fortune, small acts having huge consequences.2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Introduction, p.4. From the entry jeopardy
• Bumfights are "exploiting people that are in dire situations," Lisa Davis, a spokesperson for the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, D.C., told a reporter angrily.2002, Weekly World News, volume 23, number 47, page 19. From the entry bumfight
• It was one of those dire oracular pronouncements that Marko made from time to time, which were afterwards spread from mouth to mouth among the Serbs.1963, “Chapter 26”, in Joseph Hitrec, transl., Bosnian Chronicle, New York: Arcade, translation of original by Ivo Andrić, published 1993…. From the entry oracular
• Scouts and Indians from the latter province made frequent raids into Georgia, carrying off cattle without which the Floridians would have been in dire straits for meat.1929, Wilbur Henry Siebert, Loyalists in East Florida, 1774 to 1785, The Most Important Documents Pertaining Thereto, Volume 1, page 50. From the entry dire straits
• It is not necessary to agree with their viewpoint in everything; it is necessary to admit their sincerity; that they set out with no dire psychodectic intent.1924, Francis Dickie, “A Plea for Tolerance”, in Findley I. Weaver, editor, The Canadian Bookman, volume VI, Toronto, Canada: Bookcraft…. From the entry psychodectic
• That means someone opens the door of a stationary motor vehicle and sends a cyclist flying in to the path of a passing car or bus usually with dire consequences.2012 October 5, Tom Sullivan, “Distracted drivers lead to injured pedestrians”, in The Record, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep…. From the entry doorer
• I'm in dire need of someone who will be so kind as to let me have a few moments of their leisure time in congenial correspondence as a much-needed friend.1987 February 1, Donnie Whitlock, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 14. From the entry would you be so kind as to

Meaning of dire

1. adjective Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
2. adjective Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
3. adjective Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.

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Questions about dire in a sentence

How do you use dire in a sentence?

Dire is used as an adjective. For example: “His dire blunder allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.”

What is a short sentence with dire?

“dire need (of)”

What does dire mean?

Dire means warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.