Sentence examples for desperate sight from inspiring English sources
No-one wants them, the BBC's Jonathan Head says, and seeing them off the southern coast of Thailand, near Koh Lipe, that it is a "desperate sight" as they beg for food and water.
One day he caught his mother watching him through a hole in the Toynbee Club wall, desperate for a sight of him.
The first attack, however, was repelled by the 50th Army and civilian volunteers on 29 October, after a desperate fight within sight of the city.
"But I told you I don't want to die!" I scream to no one in sight, desperate to hear something other than a cacophony of my own thoughts.
Desperate to record the sight, she reached for her camera but it was gone.
What I found disturbing at the Toronto Film Festival screening were the reactions of some audience members, who sniggered at the sight of desperate teenagers scattering and running in the halls and up stairs.
Today's announcement must not lead us to lose sight of the desperate need for completely new treatment regimens".
By using the Prime Minister's language we lost sight of how desperate someone has to be to cling to the bottom of a lorry or train for the chance of a better life".
At the same time, we must not fail to see the sex slave trade's many victims, including desperate mothers, hiding in plain sight all around us.
A week before she had to move out, she said, with nothing in sight, she started getting desperate, "begging for something that's $700 and the worst thing I've ever seen".
