Sentence examples for In desperate straits from inspiring English sources

These people are really in desperate straits.

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

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

It sees the eurozone, which Blair wanted to join, in desperate straits.

Some say it is a smart approach for a city in desperate straits.

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

They are in desperate straits, but they will enter the Twickenham arena swinging.

Some are still in desperate straits and others are turning a profit.

But as his company was in desperate straits he could not quibble.

His wife (Thandie Newton) leaves him and he and his boy are in desperate straits.

Next came Britain and America, both heavily implicated in the crisis; Ireland, in desperate straits, ranked in the middle.