Sentence examples for desperate for affection from inspiring English sources

I have met children so desperate for affection that they will crawl into any stranger's lap.

Described as "naive and desperate for affection", authorities said she was vulnerable to coercion and frequently exploited by adult males who she thought were her boyfriends.

As desperate for affection as he is morbidly incapable of giving it, he stumbles towards oblivion with Mara Galeazzi's depraved Mary Vetsera, his incomprehending progress aided at every turn by the cattish, calculating Countess Larisch, brilliantly interpreted by Hikaru Kobayashi.

For Vegas, this means throwing his extraordinary persona – a disorderly, drink-sodden yet childlike figure always desperate for human affection – into a situation and seeing what happens.

At one point, desperate for their affection, I reached out my hand and asked for a pinky promise guaranteeing they wouldn't forget me.

I was desperate for love and affection and I was falling in love with everyone really.

You are beating yourself up for feeling desperate for attention and affection and a commitment that may never be forthcoming.

They are not desperate for a boy's affection and can say 'no' because they have the validation of a man who is already in their life.

Desperate for my mother's affection (she preferred locking herself away in her bedroom with vials of cocaine and cases of Budweiser beer, self-medicating), one afternoon I raced to the supermarket and purchased a package of brownie mix.

I've already had people on Twitter worried the tweet above meant I was the one desperate for someone to confess their affection.

She clings to a prostitute for affection.