How to Use desperately in a Sentence

desperately

adverb

• The world desperately needs God's grace, and the church must be its voice.
  — Nick Hall, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
• These two desperately need to work it out on the remix.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 2 July 2024
• The bottom of the order desperately needs that at the moment.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Nir and his men desperately need equipment to keep them safe in the field.
  — Mark G. Astor, Sun Sentinel, 12 June 2024
• 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
• For now, the position is a strength, but the Frogs desperately need to sign more linebackers to the class of 2024.
  — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 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
• These two teams are on the outside looking in at the the current playoff field and desperately need a win to stay in the race.
  — USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2022
• All of it came from Roxie, who desperately wanted to be a star and make a mark.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2022
• The Cowboys desperately need a victory and have all the tools to win on the road this Sunday.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• The Nats desperately need to hit on these guys to justify the trade of prime Juan Soto.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• But Boeing desperately needed to reach a deal to end the strike.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
• The punch line there was that Arthur desperately wanted to win one of those prizes anyway.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2022
• Both the Israelis desperately want a ceasefire in order to get the hostages home.
  — Time Staff, TIME, 4 June 2024
• Survivors of the floods desperately needed help and still need help.
  — Shane Harris, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• The Nuggets desperately needed to see Braun take a step forward this season and, so far, that has come to fruition.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Nov. 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
• Wilson steals the show, and Hanks is in top form as a man desperately trying to stay alive against all odds.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 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 Colts desperately need a player to entrench himself at left tackle, both in the short and long terms.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2022
• This was all about the Celtics once again being the royalty of their sport the way the Yankees so desperately want to be that again in baseball.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 18 June 2024
• Eliza loved her mother but desperately wished to have her own life.
  — Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2022
• Who among us hasn’t desperately yearned for one specific gift (and shot ourselves in the eye with it)?
  — EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Ellen is a desperately lonely girl who has no place in the society she is born in, cursed with the ability to see beyond the veil, into the spirit world.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
• But satin glides against your hair with no friction and doesn’t soak up the oils your hair is desperately clinging to during the low-humidity season.
  — Clint Davis, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025