desperate
Example Sentences
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Needing to catch their divisional rival Pittsburgh, a desperate Baltimore come up against a Patriots team still in the hunt for the conference's crucial number-one seed spot.
From Barron's
Using a magical object to travel back in time, Takopi saves her and discovers the circumstances that led to her actions and those of the other desperate children around her.
From Salon
She recounts bitter arguments with her father, who was desperate for her to abandon her faith to save her life.
Back in India, her family was making desperate trips to courts to prove her citizenship so that she could be brought back.
From BBC
As for Millie, she’s young but troubled, and circumstances that darkened her past have made her desperate to hang on to this new job, no matter how disturbing things may get.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
