How to Use in dire straits in a Sentence

in dire straits

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• These groups need to assist anyone in dire straits.
  — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
• The episode ends with Jenny and Cassie once more in dire straits.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2021
• Zelda has gone from the one in dire straits to the hero forging ahead to the rescue.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
• There are places and people willing to help pregnant women who are in dire straits.
  — Rachel Hackett, National Review, 30 July 2023
• Already in dire straits, movie theaters would be crushed by such a transition.
  — Jeva Lange, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
• Banks that issued mortgages on homes would be in dire straits as owners default on their loans.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2024
• This time last year, Maryland hospitals were in dire straits.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2023
• 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
• But even some young Gen Xers in this group are finding themselves in dire straits.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024
• But Iran is in dire straits, and the supreme leader can ignore the facts for only so long.
  — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025
• The Dodgers’ pitching plans were in dire straits, forcing them to turn relievers for a bullpen game.
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• But, as troubled as the industry may be, not everyone is in dire straits to the same degree.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 13 June 2025
• 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
• The British economy is in dire straits, and voters expect Labour to fix it.
  — Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 30 Apr. 2024
• Friedrich, who works with sturgeon conservation in the species’ native region, said the fish is in dire straits.
  — Kylie Williams, Miami Herald, 29 June 2025
• 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
• Both sidestep that barring congressional action, the program will be in dire straits in about a decade.
  — Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Austin American-Statesman, 10 Sep. 2024
• And now Fisker, already in dire straits, might become one of the first big casualties of the slowdown.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• There’s the implication that the receiver is in dire straits and perhaps needs the cash more than, say, a cashmere sweater.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
• With injuries mounting, Blanchester was in dire straits going in to its matchup against Norwood.
  — Jonathan X. Simmons, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2022
• The rise in rates also has choked off refinancing business, putting some mortgage companies in dire straits.
  — Ben Eisen, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• And Germany, Europe’s biggest auto market, is in dire straits.
  — Neil Winton, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
• But recent state and federal changes, coupled with stimulus money drying up and tight budgets all around, has put it in dire straits.
  — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 16 Feb. 2025
• Yes, the game is in dire straits, but shuttering a second, brand new game after what just took place is probably a bridge too far, even for Sony.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• The justices were also concerned there had been too much testimony around how Murdaugh stole from clients, many of them in dire straits.
  — Jeffrey Collins, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
• 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
• Even without Musk, San Francisco’s business district is in dire straits.
  — Byjane Thier, Fortune, 17 July 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
• The lawsuit also paints a picture of IQHQ as a company in dire straits.
  — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
• 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