desperately

Example Sentences

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They struggle to get access to primary care — or the specialist they need — and must search desperately for providers who accept new patients.

From MarketWatch

"I will never forget the sick feeling in my stomach as I wondered where she was. I felt something must have been desperately wrong," she said.

From BBC

But no matter how desperately he pumped his legs, his body wouldn't move.

From Literature

Matters are very dire and they desperately want them to get better.

From Salon

There was a great wriggling and winking of silver; fish jumping desperately as the net inched out of the water and onto the shore.

From Literature