Each office visit is more excruciating than the last, and the diagnoses become increasingly dire.

By the fall of 2005, however, the situation was growing increasingly dire.

Things become increasingly dire as the three make their way through the wilderness.

Over the last few years, warnings about the health risks associated with obesity have become increasingly dire.

After two years of bad news about revenues, New York's financial problems appear to be growing increasingly dire.

As states fight to balance their budgets, the solutions available to them are increasingly dire.

Much of the book is spent describing the state of the environment and the food security situation, which is described as increasingly dire.

The economic warnings are coming from many directions, loud, insistent and increasingly dire.

With the criminal case proceeding apace, Andersen's crisis appears increasingly dire.

Such predictions, though increasingly dire, have assumed that a 5 percent ozone loss was decades away.