DESPERATE in a Sentence

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261 example sentences for DESPERATE, such as:
1. I had no money left and was desperate.
2. It was time for a last desperate gamble.
3. Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
4. The African elephant is in a desperate plight.
5. She was chilled and disheartened and desperate.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DESPERATE
desperate
 a.  desperately determined
 n.  a person who is frightened and in need of help
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They clung to each other's hands like children, and her body shook with desperate sobs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  And then it's generally to some desperate old widower with a large plantation and a dozen children.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Rhett's boats were singularly lucky both in taking out cotton for the Confederacy and bringing in the war materials for which the South was desperate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  His hand on the doorknob, he turned and looked at her, a long, desperate look, as if he wanted to carry away with him every detail of her face and figure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankee assault bloodily repulsed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  She wanted Tara with the desperate desire of a frightened child frantic for the only haven it had ever known.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  The silence was so prolonged she wondered if Grandma could have failed to comprehend her desperate plight.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  The Fontaines had fared best of any, thanks to Sally's hard ride, but it was flourishing only by comparison with the desperate situation of the other neighbors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  Her need of money was too pressing, too desperate, for her to bother about his ultimate fate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  "You see what a desperate character I am, Scarlett," said Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  "It's made out of Mother's curtains," she answered, too desperate to lie about this shame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  She was chilled and disheartened and desperate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  Loving you as you say he does, he should have known just what you would do when you were desperate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Now, the eyes which had been fearful and desperate were hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
15  She tried to remember what she had heard about the releasing of the Milledgeville convicts in that last desperate effort to stem the tide of Sherman's army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  I heard sounds of a desperate struggle, just above my room.
2  Car firms are desperate to achieve economies of scale.
3  The African elephant is in a desperate plight.
4  The company is in desperate trouble financially.
5  It was a bit insensitive of Fiona to go on so much about fat people when she knows Mandy is desperate to lose weight.
6  Troops are needed to help get food into Kosovo where people are in desperate need.
7  There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
8  No need to abandon their own people more than tears desperate not born.
9  The doctors made one last desperate attempt/effort to save the boy's life.
10  I think I'm strong enough to lose so desperate.
11  They are in desperate need of food and shelter.
12  Desperate diseases must have desperate cures.
13  It was time for a last desperate gamble.
14  I had no money left and was desperate.
15  The situation is desperate - we have no food, very little water and no medical supplies.