Sentence examples for desperate to turn from inspiring English sources

I'm desperate to turn these results around.

The Mets did what many teams desperate to turn their clubs around do: they overpaid.

Manager Phil Brown is desperate to turn Hull's fortunes around on the pitch - and hopes the club's new chairman can do the same in the boardroom.

At the time he was being cheered on by his congregation, Schumer was actually desperate to turn the subject away from health care.

A working mother who herself left high school before graduation, she is desperate to turn her child around, but she seems lost at how to go about it.

The Flyers, desperate to turn their season around, fired Coach John Stevens on Dec. 4 and hired Peter Laviolette, who won a Stanley Cup as the Carolina Hurricanes' coach in 2006.

"Meerkating is becoming a verb," said The New York Times, in a desperate attempt to turn "Meerkating" into a verb.

But businesses in trouble often adopt them in a desperate attempt to turn things around—and they nearly always fail.

But hamster selection is yet another life challenge on which the parenting manuals are shamefully silent, causing a generation of desperate parents to turn to the internet.

Nor can they tell you about how it has become normal for desperate Londoners to turn bathrooms and kitchens into their living and sleeping quarters.

Through Ana, the author explores the long reach of grief: the initial shock and disbelief, the desperate attempts to turn back the clock, the absurdity of normal life in abnormal circumstances.