Sentence examples for hard and desperate from inspiring English sources
A former noble who's fallen on hard and desperate times, Abigail is seemingly eager to serve Sarah (her own relative) and work her way up from the bottom.
Collingwood, no risk of making the finals after an inconsistent season, were simply too hard, fast and desperate for the Eagles.
I was really pleased for him because he has worked so hard and was desperate to do well.
"He has worked really hard and was desperate to get back playing - and it was lovely to have him back".
I was waiting for something like this to happen, waiting for the United States players to remove their million-dollar masks and play basketball the way they played it before they got rich: hard-edged and desperate.
We hope he will be exactly the same this time, if not even more hard-working and desperate to score runs.
And then her drug use got harder, and more desperate, and then it wasn't funny any more; and then, when she was trying to clean up, she was dead, gone to join "the stupid club", as Kurt Cobain's mother described all the rock stars who end up dead at 27. O'Toole and his drinking buddies all far outlived that club – but even so we should not romanticise his generation's addictions.
"And I think the boys really worked hard and we were desperate to win the game and this is a crucial game for us in the table.
PITTSBURGH — The game had a playoff feel to it, fast and desperate, hard-hitting and angry, with accusations flying afterward like pucks and errant elbows.
Little things are good but trying too hard seems desperate and turning up to school in a clown costume is more likely to to scare him off than make him attracted to you!
