"desperate life" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It describes a life that is full of desperation or hopelessness. Example: She was trapped in a desperate life, constantly struggling to make ends meet and provide for her family.
His trombone and his machines were the lyrical centers of his somewhat desperate life.
But to Cora, Paul is briefly everything, the thrillingly engorged centre of her lonely, desperate life.
She is both funny and poignant: a lonely, betrayed old woman who looks to sherry and fortune telling to give meaning to her desperate life.
Mr Clegg said his attempt was inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn Of The Patriarch, which follows the solitary, desperate life of a fictional dictator.
Before Christmas that year she had to return to Oslo alone, to resume a desperate life of letter writing and longing.
A portrait of the desperate life of the Russian lower-middle class, the opera was sardonic, nervy, and violent, veering constantly between satire and vaudeville and naturalism.
Both movies were adapted from fictional works by Andre Dubus III in which characters find themselves caught in ethical cul-de-sacs that they resolve with desperate life-and-death acts.
This heart-stopping sequence, filmed from Sissi's point of view, goes about as far as any movie could in capturing the suspended, eerily silent stop-time of a desperate life-and-death moment.
Some of the confrontations with the various criminals involve desperate, life-threatening situations including a bus rigged to explode, oxygen being cut off at a large party, the entire city's clean water freezing, and school students being re-educated as mindless slaves.
Healthy children, a comfortable future — how desperate can life get?
Cinderella's stepsisters, per the Brothers Grimm, were so desperate for life in the palace that they were willing to cut off parts of their own feet to wear the glass slipper.
