How to Use desperately in a Sentence

desperately

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• The world desperately needs God's grace, and the church must be its voice.
  — Nick Hall, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• The bottom of the order desperately needs that at the moment.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Jacobs sings desperately to the world, in one of the final numbers of the show’s about two dozen.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• The fish wriggled desperately until the egret opened wide and gulped it down.
  — Bob Robinson, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
• This month, Kim has become the top-of-the-lineup glue the Padres desperately needed.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 July 2023
• Survivors of the floods desperately needed help and still need help.
  — Shane Harris, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• The young couple desperately wanted a car of their own.
  — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• After the interview, Muñoz spent the rest of the week desperately checking her email.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Running late to class or work but desperately in need of a quick morning bite?
  — The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• With families desperately searching for loved ones, the list of the missing at one point swelled to more than 2,000.
  — Tim Arango and Lisa L. Schell, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• The Detroit Free Press told the public for the first time the island had four fires related to the issue, and the fire chief was desperately concerned.
  — Detroit Free Press, 7 Jan. 2024
• That was never more true than when Shelton trailed 2-4 in the third set, desperately trying to extend the match.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
• Or an encounter with a person at a party who desperately wants to talk about the banjo.
  — Janay Kingsberry, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
• McIlroy, trying desperately to end his nine-year drought in the majors, was happy to get away with a 71.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• The Rams, however, desperately need to improve a pass rush that last season recorded 41 sacks, tied for 24th in the NFL.
  — Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• But through the years of agony that Celie endures, she is desperately deprived of contact with Nettie.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2023
• The second half in Norman might have been that moment for this KU team, as the Jayhawks desperately needed a road win.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 18 Feb. 2024
• The History of the Bra Was this a problem that desperately needed solving?
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Oct. 2023
• No one in the convoy was hurt, but much of its contents – mainly wheat flour desperately needed to bake bread – were destroyed.
  — Katie Polglase, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
• Those insights come from a man who Fox News tried desperately to feature in its debate.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
• Lee co-wrote and also stars in Love Is a Gun, an existential noir that tells the story of a young man desperately trying to move on from a life of crime.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2023
• Cue the footage of Usher trying desperately to teach Shelton any kind of passable move.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 May 2023
• Emerald explains the Rim Fire to me as a story of the government desperately searching for a scapegoat to pin a costly fire on.
  — Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2023
• The Support Through Loss Act would provide time to grieve, something that's so desperately needed.
  — Maressa Brown, Parents, 26 Oct. 2023
• Leave it to the West Coast’s preeminent football school to make the basketball move the region desperately needs.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
• And that number is expected to climb, as rescuers desperately try to find survivors in the rubble.
  — CBS News, 10 Sep. 2023
• And obviously, there’s always the issue of someone who desperately needs money and may have to sell all or part of it.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• Lillis, as the youngest of the three, most desperately clings to their old dynamics, hoping somehow that will bond them together anew, while Gross’ Rachel needs to move on.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Sylvain desperately pleads with Matt to help him while the woman panics and briefly attempts to flag down a police officer.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
• The Hollywood Bowl lacks ample parking and desperately needs its park-and-ride program.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024