"desperate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was making a desperate bid to get control of the company.
- His present plan, though boldly put, was actually a desperate bid for freedom.
- It was a race against time, a desperate bid for survival.
- He is believed to have made these transfers in a desperate bid to prop up his private companies.
- At length he burst free in what looked like a desperate bid for escape.
- They meet again today in a desperate bid to sort out who gets what of next year's £244.5 billion spending cake.
- She was making a desperate bid for his attention and she had it.
- All the other stuff, that was just a desperate bid not to be my father.
- She didn't even know why Brittany had made this desperate bid for her father's attention.
- Even though he could barely stand, John made one last desperate bid for survival.
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