How to Use in dire straits in a Sentence

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• Because as the prices go up, and the money stays the same or goes down, every town will be in dire straits to fund education.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2024
• Even without Musk, San Francisco’s business district is in dire straits.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 17 July 2024
• The episode ends with Jenny and Cassie once more in dire straits.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• The British economy is in dire straits, and voters expect Labour to fix it.
  — Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2024
• Forget the Red Wings’ Stanley Cup hopes; their chances of even surviving the first round were in dire straits.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 18 Apr. 2022
• Just shy of a decade ago, cuddling a cat this aggressively would have left me in dire straits.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
• There are places and people willing to help pregnant women who are in dire straits.
  — Rachel Hackett, National Review, 30 July 2023
• In many ways, San Francisco’s downtown is in dire straits.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
• And now Fisker, already in dire straits, might become one of the first big casualties of the slowdown.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• In a certain way, the muted dramatic tone suits the circumstances: This is the depths of the Great Depression, and the have-nots are in dire straits.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
• This time last year, Maryland hospitals were in dire straits.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2023
• Already in dire straits, movie theaters would be crushed by such a transition.
  — Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
• Afterall, the 49ers were in dire straits at quarterback.
  — Tyler Dragon, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
• Giuliani has been in dire straits for months and is facing hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal bills.
  — Edith Olmsted, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• It must be lured, placated and trapped, preferably before the end of the seven-day span when poor Tamira (still alive but in dire straits) will be killed.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
• With injuries mounting, Blanchester was in dire straits going in to its matchup against Norwood.
  — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
• The Panama Canal, which connects Atlantic and Pacific trading routes, has been in dire straits for some time.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• Put them in dire straits, Chabon seems to be saying, and Jews will descend to the level of their enemies — and the U.S. government will happily back them.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 4 Nov. 2023
• Sam Bankman-Fried, a billionaire who has become the go-to person for bailing out or looking to take over crypto firms in dire straits, passed on a deal to acquire the lender.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• The Razorbacks were in dire straits after falling to Mississippi State at home on Oct. 21.
  — Tom Murphy, arkansasonline.com, 11 Nov. 2023
• At the time of its vote, Exxon was still in dire straits from the pandemic, and had spent a decade annoying investors with expensive drilling gambles that left the company buried in debt.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2022
• However, parent Cagiva was now in dire straits financially, and sold off Ducati to a group in Texas.
  — William Roberson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• In February 2011, Hitchcock sent a text message that suggested the company was in dire straits.
  — Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
• The rise in rates also has choked off refinancing business, putting some mortgage companies in dire straits.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• Since preservation is a more hands-off approach to wildlife and land management, it’s often reserved for managing species and landscapes that are in dire straits.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Nov. 2023
• The leak, the source of which remains unknown, also reveals the American assessment of a Ukrainian military that is itself in dire straits.
  — Helene Cooper, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2023
• That is largely because Argentina’s economy is in dire straits, struggling in and out of recession for years.
  — Amy Booth, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2023
• The economy of the Arab world’s most populous country is in dire straits after the Covid-19 pandemic hit its tourism sector and the war in Ukraine pushed up global food and commodity prices.
  — Chao Deng, wsj.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• But the strength of the set-up here is undeniable, especially when TJ decides to reopen the backroom of his pub in order to offer free meals to both the Syrians and locals in dire straits.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2023
• For those programs in dire straits, helmets may still be available via third-party suppliers online, but massive demand has led to price gouging.
  — Nate Weitzer, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024