Example sentences for: desperately

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

  • 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.

  • Simple phrases like I wish to dismantle it become Ah'm gaan tae tak' it sinnery , and even simpler words like foolish become glaikit , so that by the end of your first day you are desperately searching for strong drink and the services of a good interpreter.

  • The publication quotes her telling a friend, "Bob told me he couldn't have sex since his stroke, I figured, what the hell--I'll marry him because I desperately want to help him."

  • As a political reporter, I desperately long to watch two candidates with enough self-confidence and authenticity to resist the prefabricated political dictates of the campaign consultants.

  • And I only praised Giuliani's press strategy for instilling the kind of staff loyalty that Al Gore so desperately needs; I duly noted that it's "overly suspicious and vituperative."


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