Sentence examples for desperate resorted from inspiring English sources

A few years ago, when multiple bidders would show up at a real estate open house, the truly desperate resorted to writing love letters to the sellers.

Civil disobedience was a last and desperate resort.

And yet, something drives one rock star after another to that desperate resort, the celebrity art exhibition.

In 1945 Okinawa was the scene of the largest land, air and sea battle in history, and the focus of Japan's desperate resort to kamikaze attacks.

Their endorsement of armed struggle represented a last, desperate resort to preserve freedom.

While I will not call a war "right," or a "good war" (sometimes war is the last, desperate resort), I have not opposed the Afghanistan war, nor criticized the reasons for starting that war, either during the Bush administration or now, under Obama.

Increasingly, they try to migrate to urban areas or abroad as a last desperate resort for making a living.

Use jealousy only as a last and desperate resort.

Desperate people resort to desperate and degrading measures to survive, including forcing young children and adolescents into abusive labour.

After several months of failure and mounting debt, the desperate alchemist resorted to fraud.

Desperate, Ms. Bowman resorted to the small, simple 1970's-vintage Tappan electric oven in the guest house, which worked like a charm.