Sentence examples for more desperate when from inspiring English sources

Some said they were starved for two days beforehand — presumably to make them more desperate when they got out.

Ms. Curran at DePaul said that the housing boom in places like Miami had been so hot that banks became more desperate when prices plummeted and were more willing to sell at lower prices than in the Midwest, where housing prices rose but at a much slower pace than in other places.

Davidge and Muller fell into a pattern: Davidge would freely concede a large point, and the attorney would then press him to admit a small one, growing more and more desperate when the witness refused to cooperate.

Well, there's nothing more human than an urge to procreate, and not much sadder or more desperate than when it doesn't happen.

The controversy became more desperate this summer when astronomers discovered a new object larger than Pluto orbiting in the Kuiper Belt at a distance of nine billion miles from the Sun.

That's when more desperate measures — stealing documents, say, or working the revolving door — start to seem necessary.

It feels a bit desperate when something more nuanced might have done the trick.

The fight remained close until the end, when Viloria, more desperate to score, left himself open for the two punches that led to the 2-point difference in the fight.

The defence team is always more desperate and therefore more dangerous when defending against a touchdown.

Mr. Cohen, the market researcher, predicted that consumers would "start shopping with a fever in a couple of weeks when retailers become more desperate and start dropping their prices".

The perpetrator of all these lies was of course a mild man on the surface, in many ways unnoticeable, well used to avoiding drawing attention to himself, except occasionally, when he concocted elaborate ruses to both gain sympathy and distract - pretending while a student to have been set upon; claiming, when things got more desperate, that he had cancer.