But obviously, dire things happen, leaving many lives and national security at stake.

All the dire things that Kiron could think of were quickly dismissed.

After all, people tend to forget how dire things seemed at the end of 2008 and the start of 2009.

"Now, myself, I'm getting out before any of those dire things can happen to me."

I can assure you that no such dire things exist.

I did my duty, trying to make him understand how dire things had become.

This was the most difficult part, and if he had miscalculated, any number of dire things might result.

She had heard Susan use the expressions and gathered from her tone that both were dire things.

It is a dire thing, being part of an army on the move.

He says that some really dire things will happen to you if he gets involved.