"desperate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- New goals will be set after the 2000 census, with the county then playing a desperate game of catch-up.
- Now she played the best piece she had in this desperate game.
- He was playing a desperate game, and there must be no slips.
- He was a criminal, engaged in a desperate game.
- It is a stake for which a man might well play a desperate game.
- I am playing a desperate game for all of us, but I must do it alone.
- It must be great wealth to justify the desperate game.
- But it was a desperate game, and he knew he could not long keep up the deception.
- "This was a desperate game for them," he said, "and they approached it in that manner."
- Nobody ought to have known better than himself that the first cast of dice had been already thrown long ago in a most desperate game.
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