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Example sentences for: desperate
How can you use “desperate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
They're desperate," Everbrite's Jacobs says.
Now I was growing desperate.
Coming after a lengthy confession of his tortured feelings toward blacks--and coming at a time when 19 states still had anti-miscegenation statutes on the books--Podhoretz's call for a "wholesale merging of the two races" seemed not just bold but desperate.
Translation: Reporters who have been so desperate for political news that they have been writing speculative stories for days about Reno's decision don't know what they would do for those 60 days.
hard upon forging their unexpected alliance amid the quadrennial panoply of the Grand Old Party's nominating convention, our protagonists, acting in unavoidable response to the exigencies of a contest dominated by the incumbent's strategy and tactics, set out for the heartland in a manner similar to his, where, beneath storm-riven skies suggestive of incunabular Turners, the desperate reality of their task began to reveal itself, rising like a black basalt orogeny from the soft soils of internecine enthusiasm.