desperate
Example Sentences
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It’s part of what makes her desperate struggle for some adolescent normalcy so resonant.
From Salon
That led some desperate sellers to either cut their asking prices or take their homes off the market entirely.
From MarketWatch
Racked with torment over her proximity to evil, Hilda makes a desperate confession to a Catholic priest, who happens to be a New Englander.
Meanwhile Annie’s increasingly desperate quest to locate her lost mother takes some curious turns.
Trotsky was a dazzling speaker and a dandy who “never quite stopped being a clever schoolboy desperate to show others how much he had learned.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
