Sentence examples for desperate to speak from inspiring English sources

But I was desperate to speak.

He was struck by the number of people, particularly unaccompanied children, desperate to speak to their loved ones.

No father should do that to their sons... From the very beginning of this whole episode I've been eager, I would say almost desperate, to speak out publicly and tell people that I'm absolutely not involved".

When it started to pour and we went inside a hotel for tea and shelter, I ran into a fellow Long Islander desperate to speak English with a compatriot.

We were desperate to speak to some recent French arrivals, but there simply weren't very many there.

We found them safe and sound, but quickly we noticed that their whole street was in the same situation, without a way to communicate and desperate to speak with their loved ones.

It's not easy to get those desperate owners to speak on the record, because there's little margin in a public spat with the company that runs your multimillion-dollar investment.

I felt a desperate need to speak to a rabbi, though I hadn't belonged to a synagogue since I was a child.

He says he realises that talking to a journalist may expose him, but the situation is "so desperate", he wants to speak out.

I'm sure they're desperate for you, so to speak.

It was not until his wife, Nadia, told him that "a desperate Swedish man wants to speak to you" that Mr. Naipaul agreed to get up from his desk and come to the phone.