Use "desperate" in a sentence

1. The ugly ones are always desperate

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2. Odd, I can’t see him as a family man … but Stephen says he was desperate for children … so terribly sad about the baby … who could shoot a pregnant woman? The thought makes me shiver suddenly; there’s someone out there who took a gun, loaded it and shot Joanna Sadler in the back deliberately and then tried to make it look as though Liz Wynell had done it

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3. vengeance writ large, and that was when the company tried their one last, desperate

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4. By then I was so desperate to have

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5. It was a desperate attempt to deflect the direction of the conversation

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6. After a moment of desperate despair he posited the alternative theory that he need not

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7. Lucy swallowed, desperate to bring succour to her parched throat

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8. It had gotten to the point where the generals were so desperate they were always planning to wipe out entire towns just to stop the random bombs and mayhem

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9. ‘I told him that if ever I was that desperate I would let him know

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10. Molly didn’t seem to think that he was desperate for kids … that’s it, isn’t it? You feel you are some sort of second class woman because you can’t give the man a child

11. “Can I have a cigarette?” I asked, surprised by my sudden boldness, but I was desperate to finish my first meal in days with that final token that would mean release from my futile fasting and a passage to one short moment in heaven

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12. Theirs was a despair that comes to a life without purpose, to a soul for whom there is no revelation beyond the recognition of desperate impotence

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13. I tried to engage them in conversation, desperate for them to reveal some snippet of information in an unguarded moment

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14. Desperate not to miss those faint taps, but my mind drifted off again, rampaging through fantasies and memories

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15. I strained at the chain, desperate to try and reach the door

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16. I held my hand out, groping forward through the tears that filled my unbelieving eyes, desperate to feel the electricity of his form and field

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17. In the meanwhile, the witch had withdrawn to a corner and was enjoying herself to the fullest, as I was getting more and more desperate

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18. She spun webs of silver thread through the evening air, always making direct eye contact, always drawing him in towards her desperate need for love on this particular night

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19. The car sat up and seemed to skim across the surface water like a steroidal jet ski, and still he pushed and pulled at the wheel, desperate for more speed

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20. They are a desperate group and already tried to murder me … and yes, I am being careful

21. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree first physical evidence of cannibalism among the and told the kids that whoever got there first won the desperate population, corroborating written accounts sweet fruits

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22. he fussed and apologized impatiently, desperate for pot holes,

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23. desperate for a pint and fag and the put away silence of laughter

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24. desperate clutching love had killed him

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25. anxious to be the joking hero, desperate to be sleeping in tattooed arms

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26. desperate to avoid the twist and turn

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27. Daniel’s voice was almost desperate in tone, he sighed deeply, millions have died, only a handful of us left

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28. The local people bustle about, the women – as women anywhere, obviously shopping while herding small children and the men either busily rushing around or lounging staring into space – I watch as a woman with two children makes desperate attempts to stop the elder of the two under her care from pinching some fruit from a stall … the little devil waits until she is occupied in conversation with the stall owner before sneakily nicking an apple and ramming it into his pocket

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29. (pause) It will be done (almost a whisper) now… (a desperate scream) Now! (holds the gun to his own head and pulls the trigger

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30. Joris hung around for the ceremony and then went across, desperate to get away

31. The desperate cravings to get wasted first thing upon waking were controllable now

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32. Behind the desperate couple, the house lights went up, but they were so engrossed in their respective miseries that neither of them noticed a shabby little old man shuffling down one of the aisles and taking a front row seat

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33. The desperate young couple slowly became aware that they had an audience

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34. She'd made a name for herself as a woman of honour, desperate to help her community gain self-respect and sometimes mere existence

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35. I was becoming scared and desperate

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36. She waved her hand at the figure, desperate to shoo the person away, and continued to spill bitter tears upon her red flushed cheeks, but the figure came towards her, knelt at her feet and held her hands

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37. Mistress Fate heard this desperate plea and within a week Miss Jones found herself facing a very new and challenging situation, for which she was entirely unprepared

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38. The natives were so desperate for metal they went down in seven hundred feet of water with nothing but hand pumps and re-floated the crashed shuttlecraft to scavenge it

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39. How delicious our goal looked from where we paused to fan ourselves desperate for the slightest breeze

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40. After his experience with Rose, Tom drifted through a series of ever more desperate relationships

41. Each desperate contestant was made to stand in front of the panel of judges on a spot marked with a silver star, and almost without fail the judges poured torrents of scorn and condescension down upon their heads

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42. To the grave and desperate disappointment of both the young man and his mother, the young ladies behaved perfectly because they had all been brought up properly by respectably stage struck parents, each of them agreeing immediately to the request for a bit of a scrub at the washtub

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43. The young man was, by now, emotionally drained, having lost count of the number of dates and encounters that he’d endured in his desperate quest to find marital happiness

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44. ' I said, in a desperate

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45. She withdrew from her mother and no matter how desperate the look in her mother’s alcohol skewed eyes, she would not be drawn back into the bosom of her mother’s awful love, which is why, as the days passed and the new song hit the headlines and the airwaves, the only person who knew anything of it or enjoyed its strange and comforting melodies was Lucy, who saw no reason to share her comfort with anyone else

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46. At five o’clock she could bear the suspense no longer and switched on the television, keeping the volume down as low as she could, desperate to find out what was happening

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47. 'Whatever,' I said, sitting on the pillow as a desperate measure

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48. streaked windows forced their liver spotted hands to desperate

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49. The poor dog was so pre-occupied with his desperate search for

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50. her feelings of compassion for this desperate creature that she quite

51. deep in her bones, that she was in desperate trouble

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52. The creature of the light smiled at her, hearing her desperate

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53. Behind the desperate couple, the house lights went up, but they

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54. The desperate young couple slowly became aware that they had

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55. Mistress Fate heard this desperate plea and within a week Miss

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56. Sometimes, she’d talk about the home she used to help at … it’s where she got the idea for Danvers House, you know … she was desperate on the subject of single mums

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57. and no matter how desperate the look in her mother’s alcohol

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58. desperate need to claw away the mists and cobwebs that smothered

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59. keeping the volume down as low as she could, desperate to find out

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60. “I’m sorry I was so desperate,” she said as they lay panting afterward

61. I was desperate to get laid, but by a hot guy

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62. As the defenders feared that it would really happen to them, they waged a desperate resistance

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63. Unfortunately it is in the nature of some predators, that they will prey upon the weakest and most vulnerable to sate their desperate hunger

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64. The words that fled from him as he stood by the door are now crowding into his skull, jostling for position, desperate to gain access to the thin atmosphere that Billy is breathing

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65. Like Carol he is desperate for the slide down into oblivion, but neither of them can contemplate rest at the moment

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66. Stevie looks down at the ruined pair of jeans sticking to his legs, desperate in his desire for a moment in the shadows, for a moment out of the steady gaze of his interrogator

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67. Without warning, something skittered in the undergrowth nearby, making him jump horribly, swinging the torch about in a desperate attempt to see what it was

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68. The young man has that same cornered animal smell that Billy tried to wash away in the shower, something maleficent, somewhere between terror and desperate fury, only this stranger seems to be able to control of his emotions, to subjugate the primal

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69. And although I don’t have a terribly high opinion of the man, I honestly think our Andy was telling the truth when he said that he wouldn’t have used it if he hadn’t been so desperate to get away from here

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70. ‘Angie …’ he stammered, desperate not to lose her now – that would be worse than anything that had gone before

71. have been nice to think that that dart was a last desperate measure from a man

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72. With the smells and sounds of the city still lingering in his thoughts, Harry opened Gibbon's text and struggled to focus on the desperate last days of Romulus Augustus, for which he felt sure he had now a better understanding

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73. Bex and drugs and wild stories in a car park, but last night’s urge to hurt, to exact vengeance in blood, has been replaced by a desperate urge to pee

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74. He turns and starts to run for the car, yelling for Ken, yelling for Davie, as he pumps his legs, desperate to build a head of steam so that he can get away

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75. “I’m not that daring, but who’s to say how daring and desperate you have to be in this world?”

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76. of ideas and desperate, he ran with both arms outreached, maybe in attempt to

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77. He had a dream that was of absolutely no consequence and has no relevance to the story whatsoever and is only being used by a desperate writer desperately trying to pad out the story with as many words as he or she can think of3; for

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78. example did you notice how ‘desperate’ was repeated there? It said ‘a desperate writer desperately trying’

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79. this desperate need to defend Collette Dubois, but it

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80. This would be a very desperate measure, of course

81. desperate, but there was no point trying to overcome such

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82. Desperate to regain favour, he held out one of the mugs

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83. I found Harry fishing one afternoon and confronted him with my realization of my desperate need for guidance if I was ever to tolerate my own existence

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84. Jameson handed Hannah back to her father, and Harold continued talking but more to the face of his sleeping daughter, “There was a family who had nearly lost everything in a flood and Harry decided it was an opportunity for Kaitlyn to make good on her desperate desire to escape the shallowness of her life

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85. I was desperate, you see

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86. the body in the desperate hope of finding a clue that had

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87. The company was in desperate need of an engine for one of their Boeing 777 fleet of three

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88. I caught for a couple of last minute desperate guys who

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89. Bruce was desperate to solve his predicament

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90. ’ It had been a desperate, futile suggestion on

91. was an old timber building in desperate need of repair

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92. It was desperate times, and

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93. It might take desperate action in self-defense

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94. She found herself excited about this and knew it was because she was desperate for company

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95. She clung tighter, desperate for his strength

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96. God is in heaven with all the power needed to change the world, and the world is here desperate for answers

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97. to ask!’ he beseeched, desperate for the chance to show

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98. The smell of cabbage reached the nose of Toad as he lay in his misery on the floor, and gave him the idea for a moment that perhaps life was not such a blank and desperate thing as he had imagined

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99. They are desperate, and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men, who must either starve, or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands

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