desperately

Definition:
1. With great urgency.
2. In intense despair.

Use 'desperately' in a sentence:

• 1. He was a boy who desperately needed affection.
• 2. I thought back to the time in 1975 when my son was desperately ill.
• 3. He tried desperately to wriggle out of giving a clear answer.
• 4. Her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy.
• 5. The hospital is desperately short-staffed.
• 6. He desperately needed cash to bail out the ailing restaurant.
• 7. He was found desperately trying to untangle several reels of film.
• 8. He searched desperately for something to say.
• 9. Lewis desperately needs to keep clear of Ruddock's big left hook.
• 10. Pinocchio swam desperately with his arms, his body, his legs, his feet.
• 11. Scores of people tried desperately to gatecrash the party.
• 12. A birdwatcher, armed with a telescope, found the pet sitting desperately on a rock.
• 13. She was desperately looking for an out.
• 14. "Oh, there's no use in talking to him," said Alice desperately: "he's perfectly idiotic!"
• 15. They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
• 16. The towns are on the way to becoming agglomerations of desperately poor people.
• 17. He desperately dodged a speeding car trying to run him down.
• 18. I desperately threw myself at that guy like a bullet.
• 19. I think she feels desperately wounded and unloved at the moment.
• 20. Desperately she fought back the tears.
• 21. It really is desperately unfortunate that this should have happened just now.
• 22. The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
• 23. Matthew desperately hacked through the leather.
• 24. His gross mismanagement left the company desperately in need of restructuring.
• 25. I desperately squirted water on the flames.
• 26. The press desperately needs new information, and everything we do is grist for the mill.
• 27. She looked desperately around for a weapon.
• 28. His country desperately needs Western aid to restore its ailing economy.
• 29. He tried desperately to convey how urgent the situation was.
• 30. She tried desperately to engage him in conversation.
• 31. I desperately needed something to occupy me during those long, lonely nights.
• 32. Haig was desperately eager for an affirmative answer.
• 33. People were desperately seeking shelter from the gunfire.
• 34. He desperately needed money.
• 35. He took a deep breath, desperately trying to keep calm.
• 36. They desperately wanted a child.
• 37. She desperately wanted to win her father's approval.
• 38. It is desperately sad news and I am absolutely shattered to hear it.
• 39. Beneath his confident exterior, he was desperately nervous.
• 40. I desperately fought the urge to giggle.
• 41. The banks are now desperately scrabbling to recover their costs.
• 42. The world desperately needs an effective WTO.