Example Sentences

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Equipment, including excavators and plows so direly needed now, were sold off.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2024

New treatments and therapeutic targets are direly needed for these conditions.

From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024

"A fiscal commission is direly needed," Republican Senator Mike Braun, a Budget Committee member, said in an interview.

From Reuters • Nov. 21, 2023

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is setting the minimum salary level for House staff to $45,000 per year, arguing the move is direly needed to retain talent.

From Washington Times • May 6, 2022

He made such rapid headway that, before Dallas realised it, the food was gone, the plate scraped clean and the suet direly threatened.

From The Plow-Woman by Gates, Eleanor