Words similar to desperately
- descent
- description
- deserved
- design
- designated
- desormeaux
- desorption
- despaired
- despairing
- despairs
- despatch
- desperado
- desperanto
- desperate
- desperately
- desperately--but
- desperation
- desperation--is
- despeñaperros
- despicable
- despina
- despise
- despite
- despoiling
- dessaaae
- destination
- destined
- destroying
- deta-no
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.