Example sentences for: desperately

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

  • I remember, in art school, watching otherwise mild-mannered students hyperventilate, grimace, and lunge at their canvases, trying desperately to imitate de Kooning's slashing gestures.

  • The parents desperately lobby the cautious and slow-moving Federal Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health to approve experimental gene therapy, but when the treatment comes it does little.

  • The Democratic spin: Republicans are in deep trouble and are desperately hoping Bush can save them.

  • Surprising fact: Psychosurgery is still performed on the desperately ill.

  • Starr tidbits: He's not brilliant but is the hardest-working man in the legal system, he wanted desperately to be a Supreme Court justice, and his "tin ear" for politics has hurt him in previous cases.


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