Sentence examples for desperate scene from inspiring English sources

Witnesses described a desperate scene, as workers leapt from the upper floors of the factory, trying to land on nearby rooftops and escape the smoke and flames.

"It really is a desperate scene, a scene of panic there," Mr. Bays reported on the channel on Thursday, an hour after returning to London.

In one desperate scene, in which Blanche explains her sordid past to Stanley's friend Mitch Tim Richardss), who has been disabused of his romantic interest in her, she takes a slug of Southern Comfort.

That eerie, desperate scene, coupled with Tommy's stark warning to Michael – "You're young so you think what we do is all right; it's not all right, people get hurt" – demonstrated that, like Aunt Polly, this show hides steel under its gaudy trimmings, and is all the better when it lets the blade peek through.

The pheromones pinging around the back porches incite schoolteacher Rosemary into a desperate scene with her longtime boyfriend, a whiskey-nipping businessman set in his ways.

And there are desperate scenes of suffering in Unity State.

Desperate scenes of refugees risking their lives at sea or sleeping rough in European train stations are inescapable.

Similarly, we're not shown the desperate scenes just a few miles to the north, at the border with Syria.

Despite the desperate scenes of refugees and migrants in makeshift camps; awareness has been limited because these people are still alive.

Journalists had to perform CPR on a refugee who had a heart attack during desperate scenes in Croatia, as police stood by just metres away and watched.

There were desperate scenes at a railway station on Croatia's eastern frontier with Serbia, where thousands were left stranded overnight under open skies.