"desperately" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The remaining canoes had turned back and were paddling desperately for the south bank.
- Orn paddled desperately to maintain his balance as she lost hers.
- He spotted a small green frog which was paddling desperately in the grip of the inexorable current.
- After paddling desperately for an interminable length of time Bill came to more mud.
- Gally was paddling desperately beside him, chin barely held above the water, panic on his straining face.
- They paddled desperately, splashing and gasping for air, but the noise encompassed them, dominating all other sounds.
- Prince Rhun, drenched to the skin, paddled desperately with his hands.
- I slipped into a dream in which a lost kitten paddled desperately in a boiling sea.
- The surfers paddled desperately to get out of the way.
- She lay flat on the board paddling desperately towards a dimly seen shore, as darkness and rain fell simultaneously.
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