"desperately" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They began to swim desperately across the narrow water that divided them from the foreign submarine.
- It began to race back to the spot where The Shadow was swimming desperately through the darkness.
- There they were, desperately swimming up and down under the bank opposite the little bay that the cruiser had closed to them.
- He swam desperately, trying not to splash, expecting a musket ball between the shoulder blades every moment.
- He began swimming desperately, for the tiling was gliding past him at some ten miles an hour.
- She swam desperately toward the lights until she suddenly found herself walking, then running.
- The men swam desperately along it, searching for an aperture or a ledge.
- He saw Cardona swimming desperately, his mouth wide agape almost under the circular opening in the ceiling.
- At that moment, unknown to Tom and Chow, their three friends were swimming desperately, deep under water.
- Combat is to sear the lungs of desperately swimming sailors with flaming fuel oil.
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