Sentence examples for desperate around from inspiring English sources

He is playing a waiting game until teams become desperate around the trading deadline in February, hoping to earn far more than the $5 million midlevel exception.

To allow the player to turn this desperate situation around would have comprised a dishonest memory for the Greens, making a terrible situation a hundred times worse.

Farson's enthusiasm for Wilson had to carry his far less impressed opinion of the other writers he roped into membership of this supposed generation: Kingsley Amis Michael Hastingss, then 18, who was about to have his first play performed; and, in a desperate cast-around for any other at-all-visible talents at a lean time, John Osborne, whom Farson noted seemed to be "an angry young man".

Ends up, everyone's glancing around, desperate to see where the fun is.

She struggled since adolescence with what she called manic depression, and what I remembered the medical establishment describing – as I asked around, desperate to understand– as close to schizophrenia.

We blithely assume that it's the success of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs that makes them fear death so much: they can't take their wealth or success with them so they are desperate to stick around longer and longer to double and redouble it.

Brown was desperate to turn around his struggling and financially strapped franchise, which was reeling from a 22 46 record.

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A resident grumbles that there are more desperate types around.

They look desperate, huddled around smoky fires in wet clothes.

Populations of the desperate roam around, begging for money and scraps of food.