It is a desperate maneuver since it often damages or destroys both.

The pilot, in those last few seconds, tried several desperate maneuvers with the jets and the gyros, but to no avail.

A desperate maneuver was called for if the red nuts were not to be defeated once again.

There is a great temptation on such occasions to be overwhelmed by your partner's desperate maneuvers and to laugh yourself senseless.

He went to full impulse power and began more desperate maneuvers.

In a desperate maneuver, he grabbed the bottom rung of the rail, breaking his fall at the last second.

Their last desperate maneuver had been for nothing.

Tyler's feet were dangling high, and in a desperate maneuver he slammed a foot into Macro's stomach.

That meant automatic separation had been triggered- a desperate maneuver under the conditions Kirk saw.

One desperate maneuver remained a possibility: to think her way to him and tell him where she was, and why.