Sentence examples for in desperation does from inspiring English sources

How in desperation — does this sound familiar?

True, but normally I jockey into spaces on the street and only in desperation do I go for a garage.

When the class bully strikes out with the tough guys in the schoolyard, what, in his desperation, does he do?

Desperation does bring out the best in some people.

The memory of the uttered phrase in a moment of desperation did not leave him; he began to ask if he was worthy of God's mercy or in any way redeemable as he had not only neglected his faith but directly opposed it, mocking others who showed theirs, deriding and denouncing God as a myth.

Obviously, desperation didn't alarm the Giants.

Desperation did not cover it.

The market is so tight that people wander into Ms. Ball's office in desperation, as Lynn Gilleo did the other day.

I'm ashamed to say that, in my abject desperation to fit in, I didn't chuck my fist in the face of those who thought it was cool to nickname the only black guy in our year "token".

"That was done in desperation.

No one is yet offering an Antarctic trip in which tourists will be allowed to kill and eat sled dogs, as Ernest Shackleton did in desperation on his 1914-16 expedition.