Example sentences for: desperately

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

  • What he desperately hopes to conceal is what he truly is: corrupt!

  • In the CTC and higher up, the CIA's managers believed that they desperately needed funds just to continue their current counterterrorism effort, for they reckoned that the millennium alert had already used up all of the Center's funds for the current fiscal year; the Bin Ladin unit had spent 140 percent of its allocation.

  • Times , which for all practical purposes enjoys monopoly status in Los Angeles, is paying the Staples Center, which desperately needs publicity from the L.A.

  • Partial-birth abortion is "surely not" a "very important" issue, and Congress should not have let the Republican "politics of obstruction" defeat President Clinton's health care proposal in 1994, given the "broad bipartisan and public consensus that it was desperately needed."

  • Imagine various rabid mass murderers--and a priest--trying desperately to fool an irritated bureaucrat into believing they're legitimate passengers on the last flight out to the resort hotel where the Ultimate Weapon of the Universe has been left in a room.


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