But Kosar's desperate pass at the gun sailed out of bounds in Denver territory.

Hoping to generate a tying touchdown in the dying minutes, Brady threw a few desperate passes but the Jets held on to win, 10-3.

Not that he really believes that things will ever come to quite such a desperate pass.

The latter situation led to the Roman saying "ad triarios redisse", "to fall back on the triarii", meaning that things had come to a desperate pass.

Dorsey was pressured by linebacker Cie Grant and threw up a desperate pass.

The Crimson Tide did not have to be in position to throw a desperate pass in the final minute.

But here we seem to have come to a desperate pass.

His hands moved in desperate passes; he whispered cantrips fast as his lips could shape them.

Surely, things must be in a desperate pass if this rabble of bombproofers, old men and little boys were being called out!

On the last play of the game, Shakespeare threw a "long, desperate pass", but it was intercepted as time ran out.