"desperately" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "No, you can't-" She scrabbled desperately in her purse, hoping for one more quarter.
- Then he scrabbled desperately at the passing rocks to slow his fall.
- There were no reins and his hands scrabbled desperately at the mane, trying to gain a hold.
- I'm scrabbling desperately for a solution, a loophole to wriggle through, unwilling to give up until I've tried every last possibility.
- His legs went over and he scrabbled desperately to get a grip, his fingers no longer sticky.
- DiGeorge screamed, scrabbling desperately at the leg of the heavy oaken piece.
- Vimes grabbed Carrot and stumbled down the heap as the king started to scrabble desperately to get free.
- A dog started to slip on the snow and scrabbled desperately to save itself from the long, cold drop.
- The killer desperately scrabbles through the sack of potatoes to find the dead woman's hand.
- He scrabbled desperately with the other, and at last found a hold.
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