Dire in a sentence as an adjective

Right now, phage therapy is most often used in dire cases, where side effects like that are less of a thing.

The point is that its a highly failure prone requirement with dire consequences.

It seemed empty, and I was told not to open it unless my circumstances had become truly dire.

I don't feel right about withdrawing entirely and leaving them to their dire fate when I know it's possible to get healthier.

That's an extraordinarily common thing for people to do, and some do it no matter how dire their current circumstances.

I would never, unless it were an extremely dire situation with no doctors, attempt any kind of surgery on someone.

I agree with you that the situation isn't as dire as portrayed in the article, but frankly, I'm quite willing to call toolbars and the like malware.

Much of this stuff is not obvious at all until you see someone do it, and if everyone you know is in similarly dire straits, you have nobody to teach you.

In times of peace, leaders have no dire motivation to mold their citizens into specific paths that are catalyst for military purposes.

It's easy to blame failure on others, much harder to take responsibility for it yourself and help turn a dire situation into a victory.

Interestingly enough, the dire support for cross-database queries which are perfectly legal in MySQL but not in other vendors is the reason I had to roll my own ORM.

Or maybe the word "heartbreaking" should be reserved for citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where, all things considered, things are considerably more dire.

The software license is the best part:"If you are caught in a dire situation wherein you only have enough time to save one person out of a group, and the Author is a member of that group, you must save the Author.

The displayed range never reached the number of miles remaining to Milford, and as I limped along at about 45 miles per hour I saw increasingly dire dashboard warnings to recharge immediately.

As a direct result, social programs for the countrys unemployed were radically eroded and have never recovered, despite many subsequent surplus budgets.

Historically, only military societies prevailed because they had direction and motivation to improve.

Dire definitions

adjective

fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; "a desperate illness"; "on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall; "a dire emergency"

See also: desperate

adjective

causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"