6 sentences with 'desperately'
Example sentences and phrases with the word desperately and other words derived from it.
• « Winton's co-pilot desperately tried to make repairs to the machine and stood on top of the engine to pour oil into it. »
• « Five cavers who had spent the day in St. Louis desperately searching for the equipment needed to make a last-ditch rescue effort went to the mine and met the emaciated-looking rescuers. »
• « We were both desperately in need of comfort, but we had grown so far apart that we no longer knew how to ask or give it to each other. »
• « As they had always done, Europeans desperately wanted luxury goods from the East, including spices, silks and porcelain. »
• « It is worth noting that this Portuguese "monopoly" was primarily a monopoly between the Indian Ocean trade and Europe, and not a monopoly of trade within the Indian Ocean itself (despite the best efforts of the Portuguese, who tried desperately to impose control by force of arms). »