Words similar to desperate

Example sentences for: desperate

How can you use “desperate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The dismal spin: Bush looks less confident and more desperate for votes.
Her gendered mattress is the kind of garbage an immature college student would turn out the night before an exam in a desperate bid to seem iconoclastic and "relevant."
It said a rift was opening "between the more hawkish governments in London and Washington and anxious European allies desperate, for domestic political reasons, for a diplomatic and political breakthrough."
Are users really so desperate for descriptive adjectives that will go with nouns as to be willing to wade through almost two hundred terms?
Many H-2A workers come to the United States because of desperate financial circumstances at home.