desperate

Example Sentences

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One 62-year-old driver in Manila told the BBC the situation was getting increasingly desperate, saying he had no food to support his five children and had not received any cash aid from the government.

From BBC

This challenges the idea that young people are desperate to be permanently online.

From BBC

"I was that desperate, I put some chairs and blankets in the car and got there at five in the morning," she says.

From BBC

Arteta's Arsenal will be desperate to shed their tag as the side that has come up short in recent years.

From BBC

I know that sounds like a desperate postmodern gambit, but it pays hilarious and chilling dividends by turning episodes previously recounted only in disputed legal proceedings into confrontational Brechtian theater.

From Salon