Sentence examples for Desperate straits from inspiring English sources

These people are really in desperate straits.

"People see desperate straits and define themselves by doing something".

But there are definitely places in more desperate straits.

Allan Melvill died in 1832, leaving his family in desperate straits.

So, as with thousands of other New Yorkers in desperate straits, she entered an adult home.

Now their credit lines have been cut off, and they're in desperate straits.

Twenty miles to the west, another group of refugees are arguably in even more desperate straits.

"In New York you habitually walk past people in far more desperate straits than that.

The 10-square-mile riverfront city was not always in such desperate straits.

Not everyone is unhappy about the desperate straits of the Greek economy.

They are hardly in desperate straits, but they're worried about the market collapse.