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How to use desperation in a sentence

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Spurling tells of a life plagued by desperation, self-doubt and nervous anguish, which required an assuaging art of calm.
At one point, in desperation, he started his car, turned on its air conditioner and put his son inside to sleep.
Ignoring a cab waiting at the kerb, in her desperation to get away from what seemed like a nightmare Iris took to her heels and ran.
In contrast to the wistfulness associated with nostalgia, however, the feeling here was one of nervousness, and even desperation.
She looked up at him, broken, eyes reddened and wavering in desperation, lips parted slightly.
The spin on the Telegraph story is so blatant that it reeks of desperation.
This juxtaposition between western products and human desperation underlines the inequalities of the new world order.
Masculine desperation is rapidly evolving into the vogue cinematic theme of the new millennium.
Perhaps acknowledging this incongruity, he spoofed his desperation in a series of photographs that mock his suicide.
The heat, humidity and squalor of the flooded city is causing panic and desperation.
Roberto Carlos has taken to hacking the ball miles into the stand in desperation.
The plight of many asylum-seekers, their desperation and their statelessness, has in the past been summed up by their lack of documentation.
As she ran on in desperation she cannoned into an old woman who she only saw after it was all too late.
He could speak very little English and in desperation took a job as a head waiter with an Italian restaurant chain.
I recognised my scrawl and wondered if I had written this in desperation for something to do for another heartsink patient.
With increasing desperation, he looked for it, scanning the heaving landscape before him for something to hold onto.
In response, he cries out for her not to leave him, desperation depicted on his face.
And the young actress doesn't rely on hysterics and overacting to convey Maria's desperation.
At the same time, I breathe a regretful sigh at the anguish, the desperation and the rage reflected in the letters I hold in my hand.
Trudy called in desperation, but she had flown off to let Trudy face this test alone.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But, nerved as he was by desperation, he found the task greater than he could compass.
The announcement of this entirely unparalleled and intolerable requisition threw the whole city into a phrensy of desperation.
It was necessary to stigmatise flagrant defections, but without driving anyone altogether to desperation.
With disgustful 43 desperation, she emptied the room and swept it as with fire and sword.
Finally in desperation the sub-chief had demanded that kolinsky furnish a more practical scheme.
Did any one here see Mr Pollard in his room, the detective asked in desperation, and to his surprise a bellhop piped out, I did.
Her desperation must have been extreme, and gaspar Ruiz was a docile fellow.
His gibus was thrust back and exposed a disorder of hair that suggested a reckless desperation.
Do you think you can goad a man to desperation and leave him as cool as when you began?
In his desperation he cocked the weapon, and pointing it skyward pulled the trigger.
At last in sheer desperation he referred to the loudness of the clock's ticking.
To the stifling submission of the sweatshop or the desperation of the streets!
Possibly, he feared that by oppressing them he might drive them to acts of desperation.
In her desperation she determined to pull down the church, and thus to destroy her two victims for ever.
The kind and once honourable Rob Roy was now driven to desperation.
The yellow men, cornered between two enemies, fought with the desperation that utter hopelessness often induces.
Even if you were really criminal, for that can only drive you to desperation, and not instigate you to virtue.
This self-praise he utters with a mien of ironic desperation.
In desperation, Taber fired at the lethal fist that held the weapon.
I am encircled with squalor, with hunger, rage, and sooty desperation.
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