"desperately" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As I am sucked under, the din of angry water is suddenly muted and I kick desperately for the surface.
- Kicking desperately, paddling one-handed, I managed to tow her clear of the rocks.
- As Arthur desperately kicked at the remnants with his foot, the last pile of glop vanished in a twisting puff of smoke.
- I kicked desperately and clawed at the water around me.
- His desperately kicking feet touched the metal support pole within the glass insulators.
- It was a man, a good thirty feet below the water, kicking and flailing desperately, his feet and hands oddly together.
- Five, as Doc popped up like a cork from a bottle, gray hair lank around his face, arms flailing, legs kicking desperately.
- Spurred by the knowledge, he kicked desperately, trying his best to free his legs from the weight of dirt on them.
- She kicked desperately with no attempt to conserve energy.
- He kicked desperately at the control pedals, but it was no use.
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