He was looking at me in a desperate way.

He even went on a hunger strike as a desperate way to gain public sympathy.

Desperate men acted in desperate ways, and she had no right to risk herself more than could be helped.

It was a desperate way of grabbing her attention.

Elsewhere, school officials have devised sometimes desperate ways to raise money.

I took off my boots, and ventured out on the desperate way.

The refugees who reached Dadaab were in a desperate way, but better than those they left behind.

"It must be difficult to live in such a desperate way," one character says to Romeo.

A flock of small black birds came across the building in a desperate way.

But turning off the engines does not fit in, except perhaps as a desperate way to slow down, pilots said.