dire straits
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "After being shipwrecked on the island, we were in dire straits."
- "The painter inconsiderately enough borrowed £30 raised for him with difficulty by the poet, and when Keats was himself in dire straits, resented the expectation that it should be repaid."
- "Scouts and Indians from the latter province made frequent raids into Georgia, carrying off cattle without which the Floridians would have been in dire straits for meat."
- "[…] Pandora announced via press release that [Roger] Lynch — who has run Pandora since September 2017, taking it from dire straits to a profitable audio and advertising enterprise — will step down from the company once the deal officially goes through."
- ""I understand the country is in dire straits and has a £2 trillion national debt. […]""