"desperate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desperate adjetivo

desperate + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 155
desperate need • desperate attempt • Desperate Housewife • desperate effort • desperate situation • desperate measure • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(1) need, urge, life
Kolokacji: 3
(3) Housewife, woman
Kolokacji: 2
(5) measure, ploy, gambit, step
Kolokacji: 4
(8) search, quest
Kolokacji: 2
(11) strait, pass
Kolokacji: 2
(13) gamble, venture
Kolokacji: 2
(15) character, case, letter
Kolokacji: 3
(18) poverty, shortage
Kolokacji: 2
(19) call, cry, scream, whisper
Kolokacji: 4
1. desperate call = zrozpaczona rozmowa telefoniczna desperate call
2. desperate cry = zrozpaczony krzyk desperate cry
3. desperate scream = zrozpaczony krzyk desperate scream
4. desperate whisper = zrozpaczony szept desperate whisper
  • His source has been a few desperate whispers during the past fifteen minutes.
  • "I need to go home," I said, finally finding my voice, though it was no more than a desperate whisper.
  • The words finally wavered out; a whisper, desperate, driven by ultimate need.
  • This time Liza called her brother's name in a strained, desperate whisper.
  • In a desperate whisper, as though Jemmy could hear her from kilometers away.
  • "Go or stay," she said in a desperate whisper.
  • "That was only one man," Gwen said in a desperate whisper.
  • Harlan said in a desperate whisper, "Will you pass, please?
  • His name left her lips on a desperate whisper, "Servaes."
  • She emerged from the gloom like a lost child, her voice a thin, desperate whisper.
(20) urgency, edge, emergency
Kolokacji: 3
(21) voice, expedient, way
Kolokacji: 3
(22) flight, journey
Kolokacji: 2
(23) parent, mother
Kolokacji: 2
(25) race, refugee, run, team
Kolokacji: 4
(26) leap, gesture
Kolokacji: 2
(27) eye, glance, retreat
Kolokacji: 3
(30) grip, grab, grasp, plunge
Kolokacji: 4
(31) loneliness, eagerness
Kolokacji: 2
(33) criminal, seller
Kolokacji: 2
(34) hand, finger
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + desperate
Kolokacji: 6
grow desperate • feel desperate • sound desperate • become desperate • look desperate • ...
adverbio + desperate
Kolokacji: 11
increasingly desperate • most desperate • pretty desperate • truly desperate • equally desperate • ...
desperate + preposición
Kolokacji: 6
desperate for • desperate in • desperate to • desperate with • desperate at • ...

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