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Example sentences for: desperation

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

There's desperation on his face.
In London, the Times ran a front-page eyewitness piece by Marie Colvin from inside the U.N. compound in Dili about the desperation of the East Timorese who know they are about to be abandoned.
The only really great moment in the entire hour is the look on his face when the male shrink he goes to in desperation says he can't take on a patient in Tony's line of work.
Despite US intelligence reports and monitored communications indicating the desperation of large sections of the Japanese government for peace, the Japanese rejection of the Potsdam Declaration calling for Japan’s unconditional surrender was the excuse for unleashing the ultimate weapon of the war.
Milosevic's "purported acceptance" of the G-8 "general principles" is "meaningless in itself, notable only as a hint of desperation," it said in an editorial.