desperate
Example Sentences
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He said it was not a "desperate dash over land" and was instead a sophisticated land-sea operation.
From BBC
He was desperate to hire and asked if she would apply.
U.S. bases and installations throughout the Indo-Pacific—such as in Japan, the Philippines and Guam—are in desperate need of hardened aircraft shelters, air defenses, reinforced munitions storage bunkers and fuel bladders.
The author also reveals the desperate conditions that beset Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, and the two Americans who were driven by their religious faith to serve the same missionary hospital.
The American exporters will benefit in the near term because they can sell some LNG cargoes on spot markets to increasingly desperate European and Asian buyers.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
