How to Use desperately in a Sentence

desperately

adverb

• Eliza loved her mother but desperately wished to have her own life.
  — Josh Zajdman, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2022
• Fuentes practically jumped out of the car, desperately screaming his sons’ names.
  — Brendan Marks, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
• Trade him now for a package including shooters and future draft picks and begin the rebuild this team so desperately needs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2022
• The mother of a U.S. Marine desperately seeks her missing son in this new docuseries.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Chemotherapy may occasionally extend the lives of these desperately ill patients, but often not for long, and at a cost.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Nov. 2022
• Money moves: With the stock market crashing and inflation rising, people are desperately looking for a place to park their extra cash.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2022
• These updates were desperately needed, Pearson said, because of a rise in after-dark solicitors.
  — Vivien Ayers, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
• A month ago, the South Carroll field hockey team was desperately searching for answers about how to end a five-game losing streak that threatened to derail its season.
  — Rich Scherr, Baltimore Sun, 11 Nov. 2022
• Her performance is built around the way a girl like Kimberly would bury her awareness of her fate deep within herself, a pressurized version of the way any teen girl tries so desperately to seem normal.
  — Vulture, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Who among us hasn’t desperately yearned for one specific gift (and shot ourselves in the eye with it)?
  — EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
• Eliminating thirst thus becomes a counterintuitive way to stay alive, even when the squirrels could desperately use a drink.
  — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 28 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024