Sentence examples for desperate work from inspiring English sources

Sex between these two is desperate work, full of longing and grappling and "heat blooming like some volcanic flower".

A reporter from The Boston Herald remembered "one Amazonian woman, shouting and screaming, and urging the assailants on in their desperate work.

First the Red River flooded to near record heights for the third consecutive year, forcing weeks of desperate work to protect Fargo, the state's largest city.

Those two thoughts — the desperate work now being done at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, and the sharing of burdens — are closely related at the moment.

Southampton, however, were making opportunities of their own and occasionally forced Chelsea's defence into some desperate work to ensure they remained on level terms.

This could signify a global shift toward casual, unregulated (and perhaps desperate) work.

Some colleagues refuse to see her, while others are overstretched and desperate; working illicit weekend jobs and reliant on the bonus to keep their heads above water.

In the exhibition, one of them depicts a desperate working man who is struggling to shut his door on the specter of death, as his family and a nurse cower in the background.

He doesn't want to admit that, like them, he is desperate and needs the work.

New arrivals wash up from India's poor rural hinterland, desperate for work, any sort of work.

"I was a 22-year-old single mother, desperate for work when I left my son with family and travelled to Osh to find work.