"desperate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The atmosphere becomes tinderlike until finally, Sergeant Shaftoe makes a desperate stab.
- With Corretja's desperate stab floating like a soap bubble in the air, all Clément had to do was punch the ball into an open court.
- The derro lunged once more, a desperate stab at Basalt's heart.
- Austin felt a quick, desperate stab at his own insides.
- "I could say, my lady," Kevin began with a desperate stab at gallantry, "that I was clumsy only because your beauty dazzled me."
- Cally sank down beside her sister on James's bed, watching her father's desperate stabs at the wall.
- Lieutenant Woida, still at the navigator's station, was caught as he made a desperate stab at the controls Sulu had not been able to reach.
- His desperate stab had gone home.
- The trio has recruited Steve in a desperate stab at cool.
- On his third desperate stab, Rafter plopped a backhand into the net to give the miracle point to the 23-year-old Bryan.
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