desperate
Example Sentences
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You make that kind of desperate, deranged threat only if things aren’t going your way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
Instead, they know defeat will cut their advantage to four, with a queue of clubs desperate to take advantage of any weakness.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
It's not just a one-way street for Magyar: he will be desperate to show his promise to reset ties with Brussels can bring fast benefits to Hungary and its flagging economy.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
I met women across the island who are desperate to find enough food to feed their children.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
And it was strange, he’d thought, how the trees—though Clare named them and talked to them and felt desperate for their affection—never perked up to see him the way Captain did.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing desperate
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