dire
Example Sentences
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We learn immediately that our protagonist’s situation is dire.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Given recent dire warnings of late about artificial intelligence rendering many jobs obsolete, the offer looks particularly enticing.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
“Eventually it’s going to come out that they didn’t de-extinct the dire wolf or the moa,” Lynch says.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
In Gaza, the humanitarian situation remains dire, with most of its more than two million residents displaced.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
We believed in it, this downward motion: so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
Vocabulary lists containing dire
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 2
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"Macbeth" Vocabulary from Act I
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The New SAT: Words to Capture Tone
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