"desperately" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

desperately adverbio

verbo + desperately
Kolokacji: 71
desperately need • try desperately • desperately want • desperately seek • desperately search • say desperately • fight desperately • ...
desperately + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 24
desperately poor • desperately short • desperately ill • desperately unhappy • desperately afraid • ...
(1) poor, short
Kolokacji: 2
(2) ill, sick
Kolokacji: 2
(3) unhappy, lonely, sad, sorry
Kolokacji: 4
(4) afraid, worried
Kolokacji: 2
(5) anxious, eager, keen, tired
Kolokacji: 4
(6) hungry, thirsty, homesick
Kolokacji: 3
(7) important, urgent
Kolokacji: 2
(8) wrong, hard, wicked
Kolokacji: 3
(9) needy, impoverished
Kolokacji: 2
1. desperately needy = rozpaczliwie biedny desperately needy
  • Since there are a lot of desperately needy children in the world, there will always be another child whose life you could save for another $200.
  • She is a Simons, the patron and sponsor of several vital and desperately needy charities.
  • They founded Rahmat, an organization to raise funds for the many desperately needy children in Iran.
  • "Dying Young" is a novel about desperate people in desperately needy situations.
  • Most of the young men and women growing up in the nation's inner cities are desperately needy.
  • Libraries would close and services for the desperately needy, including the hungry and the homeless, would be further curtailed.
  • Regrettably, the people who suffer most from this real tax increase aren't the fortunate, but the poor and desperately needy.
  • Nor were there beggars; the Companions took in the desperately needy, and assigned them what work they were capable of doing.
  • Instead, she is painted as the unluckier of the two sisters, a desperately needy, voracious child with no sense of boundaries.
2. desperately impoverished = rozpaczliwie zubożały desperately impoverished

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