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 consequences of the latter action won’t be nearly as dire, but that decision was made for the same reasons.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
• Yes, Democrats looked poised to lose the House, but the margins weren’t nearly as dire as prognosticators had warned.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• Those phrases helped to usher in revisionist readings in which conductors strove to make the coda sound as dire as possible.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• For Texas elders and their families, the dearth of new health care professionals in aging populations is dire.
  — Jayme Lozano, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Nov. 2022
• The mayors are claiming the checks are one of the reasons for the dire situation on the French side, with large numbers of people living in poor conditions in camps along the coast.
  — Frey Lindsay, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
• Finance, the new owner of Twitter told employees just how dire the financial situation for the company was.
  — Joe Wituschek, BGR, 10 Nov. 2022
• Need is especially dire this year, said Bishop Edgar Vann, as families are struggling to stay afloat amid increasing food costs and stagnant wages.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 13 Nov. 2022
• Treasury officials warn of dire consequences if the funding is effectively rescinded through inaction.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
• The consequences could be dire for California’s economy, given its heavy trade with China and Mexico.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
• Where things look more dire is in the race for the AFC’s top seed.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2022
• 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
• Though the conditions were sometimes dire, Loudon made the best of his time in Nome.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
• 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
• To hear the economists tell it, things are pretty dire.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
• While some of the effects can be dire, the ocean does have some defense mechanisms in place.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024