Sentence examples for desperate from from inspiring English sources

The Struma's journey was desperate from the start.

("I'm desperate," from a natty businessman; "I don't want to look like a boy," from a flirtatious youth).

And more and more suburban areas and small towns, desperate from the damage, are inviting sharpshooters to defeat marauding deer.

She was as insecure as most adolescents and thus pleasingly desperate (from Seventeen's perspective) for the magazine's guidance, especially in what to buy.

Something like the "cancer ad" from August looks hard-hitting from a campaign that is leading (and I certainly include candidate super PACs as part of the "campaign"), but would probably be described as "desperate" from one that is losing.

Desperate from Organic Inc. on Vimeo.

Kemba Walker made a desperate from-the-hip 3-pointer, then hit the winning shot from about 15 feet with five seconds left in overtime Saturday to lift No. 8 Connecticut to a tough 82-81 victoverover No. 12 Texas.

We have gone from desperate to destitute, from poverty to bankruptcy.

Only desperate defending from Hibs two minutes from time denied County a dramatic victory.

That one preceded the closer, "From a Sinking Boat," a desperate avowal from the new album.

"This is a desperate attempt from the Tories to distract from their lack of transparency over Lord Ashcroft.