Desperation in a sentence

If there was a desperation seen in the mood of people flocking to the wine stores, equal desperation was seen on the part of the governments to open the wine business.

Add in the stress of recent losses to make them question if father time is cashing in. Desperation could be in order hanging on for the last-gasp.

After many other failed attempts to try and solve the ailment afflicting Regan, her superstitious mother decides to call a priest out of desperation.

Again, the ensuing desperation among thousands of survivors seeking temporary shelter in camps and or homes is equally devastating.

And that is why there has been so much desperation in the campaigns in Lagos in the lead-up to March 18. The APC has played the ethnic card against the candidate of the Labour Party in a most vicious manner.

As the economic hardships persist, good people are increasingly being driven to the brink of desperation, turning them toward a life of crime.

Beneath this ridiculous male trope, we realize there’s acute desperation and fear.

Biden knew and possibly wanted to take advantage of Xi’s desperation for the meeting for his domestic compulsion.

But with the unexpectedness of Russia’s invasion last year, combined with the desperation of Ukraine’s defense, the number – and corresponding needs for materiel – of Ukraine’s soldiers quickly ballooned beyond the state’s ability to equip them.

By the end, there's more desperation.

Desperation has grown among Palestinians, many of whom see nothing to lose under unending Israeli military occupation and increasing settlements in the West Bank, a 16-year-long blockade in Gaza and what they see as the world’s apathy.

Her desperation in those final moments of episode 6, when she realizes that the has started to break her, is truly heart-wrenching to see.

He said that Yiaga Africa condemned, in unequivocal terms, acts of voter suppression fuelled by ethnic profiling, political thuggery and desperation to secure electoral victory at all costs.

Howard, in his desperation to regain power and with the centre-right now occupied by Keating, took over Pauline Hanson’s racist bleatings, and he was much more cunning about it.

I don’t have the desperation to get to a milestone.

In a country where supermarket shelves are stocked with expired food items, the practices of Chisale show the desperation of consumers, local analysts say.

In Boambee State Forest, Chris, 74 years old, from Coffs Harbour, said she is taking action out of sheer desperation.

In desperation, members of the Band drafted a to the Deputy Athletics Director, who supervises the director of the Band, pleading for support in holding the director accountable.

In desperation, she even telephoned Childline.

In Leamer’s cliché-ridden telling, legs “go on forever”, apartments are generally “luxurious”, dinner parties are “spectacular”, desperation is always “quiet” and the spurned “cry uncontrollably”.