Without her dog, Olivia would have been in even worse emotional straits.

You may finish up somewhere else, in much worse straits than you are now.

There are people out there in far worse straits than me.

And as time passed, there is reason to think she might have found herself in even worse straits than the men she drank with.

We were in a bad strait unquestionably, and under such conditions possibly the exception had to be applied rather than the rule.

East 42d Street itself is in even worse straits.

And there are those in bad straits and worse over time.

Gorstag must have been in worse straits once or twice, and he was still around to tell the tales.

Alemi was in bad enough straits over breaking his leg.

She had been in worse straits than this.