Sentence examples for the desperate from inspiring English sources

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the desperate

adjective

Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.

  • I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.

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Thus the desperate howling.

The desperate diet market.

The desperate search.

The Patriots behaved like the desperate team.

The desperate struggle to recover hometowns continues.

"From the desperate city you go into the desperate country...

The desperate party was the baby's mother.

Where were the starving and the desperate?

The desperate gambit didn't pay off.

(It turns out to be "The Desperate Ones").

The desperate man is almost always the most dangerous man.

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