6 sentences with 'desperate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word desperate and other words derived from it.
• « Jealousy may contribute to your partner feeling desperate for you, but it will also sooner or later end up discouraging the sexual relationship. »
• « The fighting during this period was often desperate - Constantinople itself was besieged by an allied force of Avars and Persians at one point - but in the end Heraclius managed to pull the empire back from the brink. »
• « Conditions in some regions were so desperate that peasants reportedly resorted to cannibalism on occasion. »
• « Thus, religious conflict overlapped with economic crisis, and the latter made the former even more desperate and bloody. »
• « Others took advantage of the state's desperate need for revenue by proposing new tax schemes; those that were accepted were usually accompanied by a payment for the person submitting the scheme, so it was possible to make a living "thinking" about tax revenues on behalf of the monarchy. »