desperate
Example Sentences
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The dialogue in his plays, a breathlessly hilarious assault, would seem an ideal way of reanimating the movie’s desperate outer-borough dreamers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Mourinho is under contract with Benfica until 2027 but can come out of it, and whatever he says publicly, my understanding is that he is desperate to return to the Bernabeu.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
McEvoy, who is taking his 17-year-old son to his first World Cup, said he set up the group to help "desperate" fans who had paid for travel but had little hope of tickets.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
“You mean besides selling everything we own, becoming a nomad, and charging desperate people a ton of cash to help them?”
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
Vocabulary lists containing desperate
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