desperate
Example Sentences
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The dialogue in his plays, a breathlessly hilarious assault, would seem an ideal way of reanimating the movie’s desperate outer-borough dreamers.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Mourinho is under contract with Benfica until 2027 but can come out of it, and whatever he says publicly, my understanding is that he is desperate to return to the Bernabeu.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Signs of froth are everywhere, with the IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI expected to be the biggest ever and investors desperate to find ways in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Instead of a foundation trench, the machine had opened up not only a scramble for stolen treasure, but a legal minefield and forgotten moment of desperate rebellion from England's history.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
As he plummeted through the air, there was a desperate moment where he thought he could grab hold of something.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Vocabulary lists containing desperate
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