Life, and survival, become more desperate in the new year.

As the company's financial situation became more desperate in the summer, it began a challenge to that law.

Never mind that he was desperate with boredom in his job.

He was almost desperate in his desire to please her.

He is a good player but we are more desperate in other areas.

Surely, the situation on a human level is very desperate in Iraq.

But she'd done the right thing and only made her own situation desperate in the doing.

But don't make any mistake, our position will be desperate in the extreme.

Everyone seems a little more desperate and hungry in the new film.

On these occasions, he has been desperate in his efforts to get the key back.