His situation was made more desperate by an earlier decision to resign, rather than retire, from the Army.

A frightened nervous person can be made desperate, can turn like a rat at bay if driven into a corner.

It was a deliberate foul - the last resort of a fighter made desperate by punishment.

She wondered if Isoldir, made even more desperate by humiliation, would try again.

He came to realize that many of the men who held them had been made desperate by the poverty the war had visited upon them.

Hunter, however, made desperate by the failure of his car's debut, steals the gems himself and makes a run to the airport.

People made desperate by the unrelinquished heat of the week had finally broken down and sought the green.

People making desperate escapes aren't supposed to get lost.

Everyone's made desperate by the waiting, including us.

Still, all our shooting could not stop that rush of men, made desperate by the fear of a fiery death.