How to Use dire in a Sentence

dire

adjective

• They live in dire poverty.
• The circumstances are now more dire than ever.
• Some analysts are issuing dire economic forecasts.
• All wild tigers are threatened with extinction, but Sumatran tigers are in especially dire straits because the world's zoos have only 235 of them in captive-breeding programs.
  — Audubon, November-December 1998
• The effects that coups have on economies are no less dire.
  — Comfort Ero, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• Merchant ably demonstrates the dire stakes of the Luddites’ plight.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2023
• Gloria didn’t seem to buy that things would be so dire.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2023
• The plight of the indie comic creator may be even more dire.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
• The situation for trans Russians in the wake of the new law is far more dire.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
• The chances of my survival in these dire conditions would be slim to none.
  — Ryan Hampton, Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• Here’s what to know about it and how to tell something more dire isn’t going on.
  — Katie Camero, SELF, 17 Oct. 2024
• Things became so dire that Mack once asked Combs for cash at an event.
  — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
• Daniele and Yohan’s relationship may be in the most dire state, though.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2023
• This one is always a great option to keep in your purse or car for dire times.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2023
• Both men seem resigned to a dire fate set forth by a country that failed them.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2024
• But the region is also in dire need of more physicians.
  — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 10 May 2023
• But nowhere has the phenomenon been as dire as in New York.
  — Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• While some of the effects can be dire, the ocean does have some defense mechanisms in place.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 10 Oct. 2024
• Was there ever a question of ending the season on such a dire note?
  — Mark Peikert, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2024
• So, back in the day, the dire warnings to skip wild oysters during the heat of summer were warranted.
  — Sheri Castle, Southern Living, 21 July 2023
• Even many less dire causes of leg numbness can be taken care of.
  — Amanda Gardner, Health, 26 Jan. 2023
• The report from the Housing Commission was even more dire.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2024
• That’s a strong sign that those areas of the genome code for traits that can’t be changed without causing dire side effects.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• The conductor has been battling a dire form of brain cancer since 2021.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024
• If the prices of all goods doubled in one year, consumers would face dire circumstances.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2024
• But there is still a dire need for effective treatments.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Bonds away One window into how dire things have become is in the market for its debt.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• Climate news can seem dire with little hope for a better world.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• As a result, students across the state must learn amid dire conditions.
  — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 27 Mar. 2024
• At least, that’s the dire outlook of a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024