desperate
Example Sentences
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You make that kind of desperate, deranged threat only if things aren’t going your way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
A desperate voice crackled down the phone -- Mariano Nkogo Mba Nchama's 22-year-old son pleaded for help to get home to Equatorial Guinea from Ukraine, where he is fighting for the Russian army.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
On various trips to Cuba delivering humanitarian aid, I met women across the island who are desperate to find enough food to feed their children.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
So, I'm desperate to go, in whatever role the manager would want me for; whether that's starting or deciding games late on.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
For years he’d been desperate to see her, to have one final conversation with her, the girl who he had once thought he would marry.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
Vocabulary lists containing desperate
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