"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
(20) urgency, edge, emergency
Kolokacji: 3
(21) voice, expedient, way
Kolokacji: 3
1. desperate voice = zrozpaczony głos desperate voice
2. desperate expedient = rozpaczliwy środek doraźny desperate expedient
3. desperate way = zrozpaczona droga desperate way
  • He was looking at me in a desperate way.
  • He even went on a hunger strike as a desperate way to gain public sympathy.
  • Desperate men acted in desperate ways, and she had no right to risk herself more than could be helped.
  • It was a desperate way of grabbing her attention.
  • Elsewhere, school officials have devised sometimes desperate ways to raise money.
  • I took off my boots, and ventured out on the desperate way.
  • The refugees who reached Dadaab were in a desperate way, but better than those they left behind.
  • "It must be difficult to live in such a desperate way," one character says to Romeo.
  • A flock of small black birds came across the building in a desperate way.
  • But turning off the engines does not fit in, except perhaps as a desperate way to slow down, pilots said.
(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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