| 单词 | desperate |
| 例句 | And then, nine years later, Maria Teresa, his final desperate attempt at a boy misfiring. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was seriously wondering whether they could fashion a parachute out of their shirts—that’s how desperate she was—when something about their surroundings changed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Tonight is no different from any other night, except that their voices are starting to sound more desperate. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Wealthy people in Saigon, hearing about the desperate plight of the refugees, drove out to the camp or came by bus, bringing water and food. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They really were leaving, but Mother seemed just plain desperate to keep the conversation going. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was more than a booby without experience; he was desperate to feel important. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z But for some reason, when I was alone, I got more and more desperate to find something. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Mam gets desperate and in the morning she has the bitter face and she won’t talk to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z What if they’re all messengers, like me, and they’re all threatened and desperate just to get through what they have to do to survive? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Her arms went up in a desperate supplication for a minute. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z And so slowly they passed out of a dim day of fears into the darkness of a desperate night. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Part of coming from old money, apparently, was having old-person habits, those gross, adult needs and desperate palliatives. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dandelion stew, which we ate at our most desperate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Dowdel, these are desperate times. Don’t hide your light under a bushel. It is up to you to hold high the banner for our town.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Whether Mother Mole and her people would be desperate enough to entrust their lives to the Night’s Watch, though ... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nguyen was desperate to find something for her family to eat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly African Americans were trapped in jobless ghettos, desperate for work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And even though they’re just in my head...just something from a movie...they glitter in my mind, and I’m suddenly desperate to click my heels together and wake up in my own bed. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Candy Man suddenly transformed from a champion to a child, and I suddenly got it—he was just desperate for some company. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He was so filled with awe, he almost forgot the desperate situation he was in, but the tribal spirit soon woke him up. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel, the tracks, the desperate souls who found salvation in the coordination of its stations and timetables—this was a marvel to be proud of. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But his diary and two notes found at the camp tell a wrenching story of his desperate and progressively futile efforts to survive. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Ivy felt so desperate for answers, she could barely see straight. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I ask her, desperate to know how the surgery is going. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z After a couple of minutes, her crying turned into groaning, distressed and desperate. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Yes, we will find her,” Olanna said too, and she felt as if they were all scratching desperate fingernails on a hard scarred wall. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I stared at the surface, desperate to beat my way up to the glorious air, but...but... City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She then went over to the cardboard box and took out the ugliest of the clothes that Mrs. Poe had purchased, the outfits the Baudelaire orphans would never wear no matter how desperate they were. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He reaches out a desperate hand towards his dad. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The Lake Windsor players started to get desperate, started to kick the ball away. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She was desperate to touch him too, but she was terrified. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The careless, Braveheart type, rebelling in a desperate attempt to defy their diagnosis before it all comes to an end. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Even so, I was desperate to find out where the many, many rules that they controlled us with came from. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He played other tapes, desperate to find out. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Their commitment meant a great deal to them, but they were desperate for us to become legal residents, and if getting divorced meant alleviating our #IllegalImmigrantProblems, then so be it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z So be careful, child; black people are too angry, too desperate.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z By about ten-thirty, I was getting desperate about the math test tomorrow. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z My body refuses to remain still in the chair, mouth drinking desperate sips of air. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “You,” she said, desperate, “you flew at me before, when I tried to tell you something. What’s stopping you now? Go on, tear at me with your claws and make a ghost out of me!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So even though he’s desperate, Theo doesn’t kick out his brother. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I paint a carousel of mirrors and dragons, and inside one of the mirrors is the happiest girl alive, desperate to break free. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mandingham saw her too, and gathered himself up to make a desperate leap over her as she lay on the track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry started stuffing everything feverishly into his ripped bag, desperate to get away before Malfoy could hear his musical valentine. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Some are desperate for someone to take them by the hand and make sense of what seems to them like an overwhelming process. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “The Queen,” said Degalis, “is desperate. She has spent a fortune looking for you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For helping him when he was desperate and alone? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That secret was making her feel like something was pushing under her skin, desperate to get out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In fact, it was a desperate need for money that sent Tubs scurrying around town like a madman, from one house to another, lugging the chocolates, knocking at doors and ringing door-bells. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z More people were joining the Fencers Club, so we were in desperate need of another saber coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I'm also desperate, but I don’t say that. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Aerial ramming—or, in Russian, taran—was a desperate tactic to be undertaken as a last resort. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “He just looked sort of desperate,” I said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She was mistaken, he was desperate for her to be mistaken and she actually was. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He looked like any young American soldier, desperate to escape. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Step aside, thinking maybe this was some last-minute love desperate to make itself known before it couldn’t see and might forget the sleeping face it treasured. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Every class change, the babble of speculation in the halls gets a little bit louder, and the teachers look a little bit more desperate. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He was desperate to set out in search of someone or something in order to avenge poor Aeschere. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z This resulted in poverty and hunger, which made them desperate, so they formed a revolutionary army to fight for what they needed. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not shake the almost desperate sadness all this evoked, and I marveled that sounds could so degrade the spirit. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was to reassure himself that they were real and not part of his desperate imaginings. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z But I feel very small, and very uprooted, and well — desperate. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Either way, aside from the few lapses in sanity when I considered revealing my true feelings to Evan, I was mostly desperate to keep my love for him under wraps. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Stella froze until the second scream came, this one louder, more desperate. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We were desperate to move our sons to a place where they could taste hope, at least, if not food. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She was suffused with a desperate feeling of loss. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In my more desperate moments, I even considered running away on my own. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For her sake, I try to look as least desperate as I can. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He would have apologized to those desperate eyes, and put the knife in her neck. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Joseph shrieked in horror, and in his desperate struggle to stand up, he pulled off Frankie’s cap. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z On particularly desperate blocks there are three or four bars at every intersection. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Closer and closer the demons loomed as the desperate chase neared its end. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z George Layhe, who had gone up to the third floor, was in the most desperate situation of all, lying flat with both a large piano and a huge pool table on top of him. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Gripping the edges of his tray of half-eaten food, Daryl's knuckles turn white and his shoulders hunch up in a desperate attempt to hide the look of humiliation burning his face. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z And despite feeling guilty for drawing hope for his own life from his friend’s desperate circumstances, he felt hopeful all the same. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z These confessions were numerous, since I had become convinced there was some sin embedded in me, a sin I was desperate to root out. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The next night some archers desperate for warmth somehow managed to set their tent afire, which had at least the virtue of heating the adjacent tents. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After a quarter of an hour, just when they were getting desperate, they heard a sudden movement ahead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Across the desperate eatery, through the rain-greased windows and beyond the access road that bounded a strip of sloping littered grass, ran the Interstate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The energy field enclosing the roof prevents any desperate form of escape. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I’m so desperate to put my clothes on that my socks stick to my wet feet. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Because he had fallen in love, and it had made him brave and stupid and desperate. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He was a desperate man, trying to save his own life and the lives of everyone in Fry the only way he knew how, by convincing himself not to give up on...himself. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They held everything they had to say, every desperate thing, and they didn’t want to say any of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z During his own medical education Holmes had seen firsthand how desperate schools were to acquire corpses, whether freshly dead or skeletonized. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I let out a single, desperate, humorless laugh. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A fallen log jutted out into the water from its end, and with one more desperate kick I surged closer and stretched out through the fear and choking cold and blackness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z She nearly fell off her chair when she heard the desperate call that came in on her frequency. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man—but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The lobsters still crawled over one another in their desperate search for escape. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir. Yossarian. He’s in a very bad way, sir. I’m afraid he won’t be able to suffer much longer without doing something desperate.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He was always upbeat and encouraging when I met with him, but I was increasingly desperate to find a way to get his case overturned. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z How many people were desperate enough to be tempted by the money? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that was why my dad was so desperate to keep us from doing drugs with our friends. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Many were desperate to be bailed out and had not been adequately prepared for what would await them in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a desperate, agonizing effort to wrench the top half of his body free. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He wondered why, desperate to make her understand. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Harry felt a mixture of desperate disappointment and panic. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z His thoughts seemed to be running a desperate race with each other. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z As the Allied forces moved through western Europe following the D-Day invasion of Normandy, the Soviets moved on the Germans in Belorussia, bringing another wave of desperate combat for the 125th. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Kendra did not think she had been given a specific reason, just that he had a desperate need. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Now I stand in front of the polished wood doors, lit by two lamps of trapped sprites who fly in desperate circles. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But I was desperate to understand the reason for Hamlet’s coldness, and Horatio seemed my only hope. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Often in the faces along the streets there was the desperate look of hunger and of loneliness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The collie made a desperate, convulsive effort and rolled over, the silent white leech still hanging from his throat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s hope in that, even though it’s little more than the desperate tossing of a coin. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven was desperate, every nerve in her body screaming at her to go save Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The Nielsens are politely curious about me, and I do my best to answer their questions without sounding either desperate or apathetic. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I leaned back against him, desperate for any support I could find, and closed my eyes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Her mind was formed in the desperate, keep-alive pattern of those early weeks and months as she spent herself out and burned herself up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z With all my anxieties, my sense of taking a last desperate gamble, and so on, I had not been realistic enough to believe him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Census records indicate that by 1910 he had moved to Pawhuska, apparently one of the legions of acquisitive, dreaming, desperate settlers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The smell leaves me seized by desperate panic—panic not like my lungs are out of air, but like the atmosphere itself is out of air. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She spent far too long in the bathroom in the mornings for one thing, and didn’t seem to mind if Bruno was left outside, hopping from foot to foot, desperate to go. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z We were all boys desperate to be men, and this game would be a huge moment in our transition. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z My prayers are wordless, defiant, dry-eyed, desperate, without hope. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he looked at me with quietly desperate eyes, put his pack back on, and wordlessly returned to his duty. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, there is the increasingly desperate apartment search. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As they dived for the food, they seemed more desperate than angry. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He stares at him with a look that seems almost desperate. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The poor black-and-white rodent had been by himself for the past eighteen months, and Virgil couldn’t help but think he’d been pining the hours away in desperate loneliness. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It was a desperate act, but as Mrs. Weidenbach had said, these were desperate times. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Not many against Capricorn’s Black Jackets, thought Elinor, but better than nothing, certainly better than a desperate father, an Arab boy, and an overweight book collector. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “They are in desperate need of a good cook. The other one quit after the possum.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But that only made the street-level dealers all the more desperate to advance. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The captain is desperate: “Tell them we are in an emergency!” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As always, here in this house, things seemed to look much less desperate. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z But they also knew where there were hungry, desperate people. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Preparing for his final act of defiance, Cole drew his chin back, then he spit hard, flinging the saliva with a desperate throw of his head. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Then flash to the people behind the football field fence so desperate for water that they would sell their souls for a thimbleful. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I harped on this so loud and long that my exhausted father, in desperate need of peace, said, “All right, Callie. I’ll pay you a nickel.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The way his hooves tore at the ground was so desperate, and his family already gone. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither is a native insect but both have been in this country for many years without creating a situation calling for desperate measures. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But he knew he wouldn’t do that, not even if they were desperate. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I am desperate for a brief moment of Before with David. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The commander could barely control the shoving crowd, which was desperate to get aboard. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I stuffed them into my pockets and skirt, desperate to get each one. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I am very different from that self who drove to Manderley for the first time, hopeful and eager, handicapped by a rather desperate gaucherie and filled with an intense desire to please. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The situation was desperate and the cat knew it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This unfair treaty, called the Munich Agreement, shows just how desperate the European powers were to avoid the outbreak of a war against Hitler’s Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z A hand made a desperate grab at her face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z They lived in what we would consider desperate poverty, and they were dependent on the whims of the weather and the good will of their lord. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z When she broke through she gasped, desperate for air, and yanked again at Taisin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Like a small, striped snake, like a salamander, or a squirrel maybe, or a raccoon, something quick, little, harmless, and desperate, she slid, crept, wiggled underneath the sides of the summer house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I may have lived on Abnegation bread and vegetables for most of my life, with nothing to spare, but I was never that desperate. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The bedsprings leak—a howling, desperate noise of falling down and springing up, even though they don’t want to. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The man before her was familiar, but not the man she’d been desperate to see. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Whether truly loyal or merely desperate, a compliant river lord might have his uses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The men looked thinner, their eyes desperate in their pale faces. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As each day passed and the ides of July neared, Aurelia became more and more desperate. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z I know I’ve gone off the deep end now, but the longer I stand here looking at the house, the more desperate I am to go inside. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Some of them were desperate, they starved themselves thin or pumped their breasts full of silicone, had their noses cut off. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But desperate times call for desperate measures, and water managers are scrambling to keep the sky from completely falling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z "All this talk isn't moving things forward. We need a plan, no matter how desperate." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She had always been a little desperate to fit in with the other kids, except for her coat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Skid’s into botany and there’s an elusive variety of musk thistle that he’s desperate to track down. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Our village had lost more than half its inhabitants, some by death, others by a desperate fleeing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “A woman came to us out of the bitter winter—sick and desperate. We could not save her.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Three men stepped forward and I reached up without thinking, actually a desperate oratorical gesture of disagreement and defiance, as I shouted, "No!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The queen's desperate voice is a sharp memory alongside Maman's dream advice. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z To that may be added that if you’re truly desperate, it can be the grounds you fight on long after the battle is lost. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He doesn’t act like a desperate street kid. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z To which my answer is, Oh pish, sir, ’tis a tale of poison, escape, and desperate flight; surely of no interest to thee. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “He’d have to be pretty desperate to want to eat Buddy,” I said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the cart were desperate to say something, but it couldn’t quite get the words out. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Refugees, weary souls displaced from their homes, would throng toward the port, desperate to flee the Communists. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z So desperate were conditions in the besieged city that, in the winter of 1941-2, police had to form a special unit to combat gangs involved in cannibalism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Getting desperate, Harry asked for the train that left at eleven o’clock, but the guard said there wasn’t one. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Jesse was more outgoing, increasingly restless, almost desperate for the books I’d occasionally send, or for word of a new movie. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Please, she thought, desperate for the bleak velvet of its nothingness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I’m desperate for the Cleeves’ toffee but I’m also desperate to get out of fifth class. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z "More like he was desperate. What other hope does he have?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She hoped so, for her wide-awake dream was hardly amusing—it was desperate. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As you can imagine, this desperate measure wasn’t encouraged by the air force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He’d run from his laboratory with his shard of mesarthium clutched in his hand, desperate to find Strange and tell him...tell him what? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z By far the most desperate situation was at Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Yet I follow him back into the studio like the desperate idiot that I am. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Uncle Al is desperate to get there before someone else snaps him up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z My shirt is twisted around his arm, and our kisses become desperate. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Right after Enrique left, she felt desperate to be with him again. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Anatole behaved calmly, but his eyes were desperate when he looked at me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a foolish, desperate move, and now here she was, stuck on an island with only a week’s worth of pills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The agents are desperate to get everyone out of the pubs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Mom was carrying on about how things had gotten so desperate around the house that we didn’t have anything to eat except margarine, and now that was gone, too. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Each time he broke off with one of his young mistresses and returned to her side, he demanded that she marry him, in a desperate attempt to hang on to her love and find forgiveness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d already read it—in sixth grade, I think—but I was desperate. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It’s not that I’m desperate for friends or anything. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She stood in desperate futility, helplessly enduring the indignity. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After playing for an hour, we began to hear the cries of a desperate prisoner, pleading, “God, help me. God, help me.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Or maybe they have, but denied that they could possibly be so desperate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z With each desperate grab, hundreds of tiny thistles pierced his fingers. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The last shard of his dignity was like a wrapper slipping off that he was desperate to retie. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Finally, desperate, he had gotten out of bed, and dressed hurriedly, ignoring the protests of his parents. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next twelve hours, we waged a fierce and increasingly desperate battle to save the Cruz family’s trees. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice, usually so lovely and low, was high and desperate behind her tears. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z These encounters leave me both exhausted and recharged, desperate and fulfilled. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Two fellows have looked at it already. Then we heard about you. Worth a try, right? She”—he nods at the woman—“is desperate to hear her program. News bulletins too, of course.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When the Apache women found their broken bodies on the rocks below, they cried huge, desperate tears, which turned to stone when they touched the earth. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z How would the words of a fugitive, desperate, tragic ugly look through pretty eyes? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Bridey Hannon told Mam that Mrs. Meagher is in a constant state of shame over the rags they wear and so desperate she goes down to the Dispensary for the public assistance. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t dare call out to me, didn’t dare give me away, Ormaie’s most desperate fugitive. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Some of their tactics became desperate, and their desperation made it easier for me to avoid the more obvious traps they set. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy was thirty-five now, and desperate about not having children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z At last she perceived that there was no hope for her, either in heaven or on earth, and she took a desperate resolve. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What is it with me, that I’m desperate to be alone when he’s here, and when he’s gone I can’t bear it? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But this was a dreadful secret which Newton was at desperate pains to conceal all his life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine how desperate all those people left behind must feel. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I thought I would be able to, I thought I would be desperate to scrape her out, but when I think about her, all I can see is Libby’s face, her dark eyes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. I can’t. I’m flat broke,” I say, desperate for him to leave. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It ripped through the still, early morning like something spilled across a clean floor—a squealing—something frightened, something desperate. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Its desperate and brutal cries give me goose bumps. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I heard most of it. It was hard not to. It’s a flimsy toolshed; it’s not soundproof. He’s desperate, that’s all.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I grasped Hamlet’s forearms to steady myself, and he whirled me around until I screamed with a desperate delight Then he swung me down onto a pile of hay, where I sprawled, breathless and dizzy. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And, as Roosevelt would soon witness, when a situation becomes so desperate and dangerous that death seems inevitable, fear can bring out the worst in people. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He was looking towards Camelot with desperate eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama puts her other hand on the doorframe and leans in so that the woman on the other side of the door can see and hear just how desperate she is. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z Hamlet said with an intensity that made the veins in his temples stand out In a strange passion himself, he seemed desperate to control the players, their every movement and word. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The painter chose to represent a dramatic moment—the instant when survivors regain hope of rescue—but he conveyed their desperate situation through an array of painterly devices. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a last growl of desperate bravado from the bush and a whimpering cry; then the sounds of the bears’ escape receded in the distance. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They keep shaking their heads and saying, God Almighty and Mother of God, this is desperate. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Her hands trembled and her heartbeat quickened, for she was frightened, not so much of the wolves, who were shy and many harpoon-shots away, but because of her desperate predicament. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t hear the desperate wail he was uttering any more than she could. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We all knew it was impossible, but desperate cons like the X-ray tech before me tried anyway. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Finally Tam Lin found a man who had gone deaf and was desperate for work. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was during those weekends that Milton, desperate to cement his restored relationship with his son, urged him once again to go into the family business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Ben sounds desperate, like he really and truly needs us. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Deydey usually beat her in short time, but today she managed through desperate measures to think ahead far enough to draw the game out to a phenomenal length. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Where, desperate as he was, he took to stealing from others, one of them a young priest who saw something to salvage and took him to a Catholic orphanage. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As we left the scene of this massacre behind us, my thoughts were engrossed with visions of Bono, known to me since before my breeching, and our desperate feud, our tussle in the dark. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z As the preparatory examination continued, the state became increasingly desperate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For jockeys who were truly desperate, there was one last resort. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “The people were desperate for a leader, for someone to tell them what to do. I vowed that I would give them what they needed and that such destruction would never happen again.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The sight of Bigwig—Bigwig of all rabbits—at the end of his tether, half unconscious, playing no part in this desperate exploit, lowered his courage still more. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She had been desperate to hire someone quickly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z She leans over the arm of her chair, weeping, waving her arms in a desperate attempt to reach me. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The war is too desperate to allow us to be sentimental for long. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I was listening with every cell, desperate to pick up a new piece of information or add a new color to the picture that was my father’s last days. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z America was desperate to lose itself in anything that offered affirmation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a strange kind of forgiveness, mixed with desperate pity and hope. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z I waited for more—I was desperate for more—but he only pushed his boot back with his toe when it started to slip and walked down the hall to shower. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Her eyes were shiny and desperate and her lips was drawn back from her teeth. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Wings flared and rabidly desperate insect legs dug into Ben’s palm for leverage. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I let her down, and I’m desperate to make it up to her. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z But apparently I’m desperate, because whenever Theresa’s mom doesn’t need her to help with baby Rocky, we take Natalie down to the bowling alley in the Officers’ Club. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “If he could come—’’ cried Will, desperate to end her grief, but the boatman shook his head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I was so desperate I went back to my Jewish family to ask for help. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes dart around, searching for my parents, desperate for even the slightest sign of them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A few of my former friends showed up at the performance, looking just as sweaty and desperate as I did. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z And I began to cry, desperate to reach my family and be comforted. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It sounds very desperate, but I believe Frodo is right. It is the only way of getting off without being followed at once. With luck we might get a considerable start.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The accumulated inactivity of the summer weeks since finals also hurried her along; since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They shouted, in turns, and together, “Position unknown! Ship out of control! Condition desperate!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I grab a plate and scoop up a mountain of potatoes, eggs, and sausages, trying to keep from looking desperate. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I am prepared to pay the penalty even though I know how bitter and desperate is the situation of an African in the prisons of this country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a desperate idea, but Piper was glad for something to do. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then he had been on fire, desperate and furious; now he was shivering and cold. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The Nut was established directly after the Dark Days, when the Capitol had lost 13 and was desperate for a new underground stronghold. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I sighed as I continued painting, all the while listening to the guy's increasingly extravagant—and desperate—sales pitches. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Propelled by desperate people to a warehouse with a sloppily painted H above the doorway. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But he held on to the line, held on with a desperate strength he did not know he had. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Marlena is a few people in front of me, looking back through bobbing heads and desperate faces. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The community seemed desperate for some hope of justice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When the complaints began to include a dry snapping sound, Aziz’s worry became desperate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z All our intelligence said that the Japanese military was still not ready to quit, even though the ordinary people were desperate for peace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But Piper didn’t answer and just kept saying We have to help them We have to help them, over and over like a desperate tape on a loop. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He is desperate for his paintings to sell—they are selling some, but many more have to sell so that Theo can recoup all the money he's laid out for Vincent over the years. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Ms. Morales is the woman Finn always called Perfume Lady,” Mom said, sounding desperate. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z His voice is so desperate, I burst into tears. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Spring came with blustering winds and torn clouds of rain and for Wang Lung the half-idle days of winter were plunged into long days of desperate labor over his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Laurie looked at her a minute as if he did not quite know what to do with himself, then turned sharply away, saying in a desperate sort of tone, “You’ll be sorry some day, Jo.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z As if a feeble hand had reached up from the coffin depths in one last desperate attempt to live before the dirt was shoveled in. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They all remembered his desperate expression during their last meal together, and how not even Hornet had been able to cheer him up. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Mark did, desperate to get his mind occupied with something other than imagining every horrible scenario possible. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She kicked and screamed, desperate to save her blind friend. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her mouth fell open: she made a desperate effort to fill her lungs with air. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z A week with the grand- ’rents and I was desperate enough to contemplate the vile crime of beef felony. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the desperate kind—the one you’d hear when someone was terrified or hurt or even out of their head with grief. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I bowed my head to the god of desperate longing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z These men were desperate to have something personal in their cells and could not help themselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of breaking glass seemed to come from all around them, and then desperate cries for help. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She made a desperate sort of half leap, and it cost her as she slipped farther down the vines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But potato farmers aren't in a desperate race for survival like I am. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In a desperate attempt to make them look more manly, he used a Severing Charm on the ruff and cuffs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z "The night with the drunk soldiers" is a much easier way to remember it than as "the night with the desperate kiss." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Stale or not one desperate day they will feed me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He was so desperate he almost sang a few of the words. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Ekon closed his eyes and covered his ears, desperate to block out the words. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “And you expect to live on the produce of the place? Well, that sounds paradisiacal, but you’ll find it desperate hard work.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Growing more desperate, he ventured into the western wing of the temple, where Brothers of the Order slept. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I could still hear her, though, it was nasty, it went right through me, her voice really shrill and desperate. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d felt the ferocity of that storm, heard the desperate radio calls for help, seen Beck Weathers crippled with horrible frostbite. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Ole reared up and made a last desperate effort to shrug off what was happening, but the sky seemed to crowd around his head, the earth buckled, and he keeled over into a strawberry bin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When kids did stage desperate, pathetic breakouts, it had been in small groups of Reds, Oranges, and Yellows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But I am no longer merely prey that runs and hides or takes desperate measures. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Many of the prisoners, though, had been driven to a desperate act—often, something violent and despicable—and afterward they were penitent, seeking redemption. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Before I punched him, Caleb would have insisted on walking me himself, desperate for time to explain himself to me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z White’s desperate search for a witness soon led him to Henry Grammer, the rodeo star and gunslinging bootlegger who, every year or so, seemed to draw down on another man because of a dispute. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Mama, you did the right thing,” he said, desperate to push away the boiling in his blood. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I’m now so desperate to lay eyes on her that I find myself trying to figure out ways of peeking into the window without getting caught. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He got his learner’s permit before we left for Pakistan and is desperate to practice enough to get his license as soon as he’s allowed. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I explained to him that I wasn’t desperate. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I grow more and more desperate, until I can sit still no longer. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I had known boys like him in school—desperate to be a man, yet trapped in his own mind. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m supposed to be working on scholarship applications. Plus today I have a chance to tutor a kid in chem for some good cash. He called me, desperate.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And that personal despair could never be desperate enough. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent far too long in the bathroom in the mornings for one thing, and didn’t seem to mind if Bruno was left out-side, hopping from foot to foot, desperate to go. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 2006-01-05T00:00:00Z Tea Cake had been working several hours when the thought of Janie worrying about him made him desperate. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Remembering my unkept promise, I pried its roots from the earth with desperate fingers and filled my basket, hoping that Elnora would somehow find them there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I shrieked once, desperate to run across a field, to feel grass under my feet instead of pavement. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z St. Jude, patron of desperate cases, help me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Nägeli was the scientific colleague whose respect Mendel most sought—and his notes to him took an almost ardent, desperate turn. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z So much in love that equally desperate measures must be taken. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z There were a lot of desperate people waiting to get that water, including kids my age and mothers with babies. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She struggled to wrap it around Taisin’s waist, and several desperate minutes later, after they had been dragged another twenty feet downstream, she succeeded, and Con began to pull them onto the bank. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I was desperate to find an empty stall. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Later he dies when, full of despair, he makes a desperate attempt to escape from prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They were borne down by desperate men who wanted only to kill before they were killed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We prayed for favors and at desperate times. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And because she knows airplanes can be lonely places and because she knows how desperate loneliness can be, she pays extra attention to her passengers. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The thought of Hamlet, made desperate by his father’s ghost, passed over us as a hawk’s shadow flies darkly over an open field. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I’m turning here and there, feeling desperate, when I catch a glimpse of the oldest girl, holding a piece of palm bark over her head and wading through the puddles on the street. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Walker, who was in desperate need of money, had to sell the land which had been in her family for generations. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z They formed a nice little barricade against the desperate fighting in the yard. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He spent four days rushing from one office to the next, in a series of desperate maneuvers that all ran up against the same wall of bureaucratic incomprehension. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The idea that Thirteen has somehow rebounded and the Capitol is ignoring it? That sounds like the kind of rumor desperate people cling to.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His eyes are dark and angry and desperate. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I was desperate to find my place, to work out where I fit. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z He let it pour over him and he wiped at his face, desperate to push this fear away from him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But along with that came the feeling that they’d got it terribly wrong, if they saw her like that; they didn’t understand at all; she couldn’t possibly fulfill this desperate hope of theirs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A desperate smile tugged at the corners of his mouth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In its place came empty discussions about matters that had no practical connection with the desperate needs of the masses of Jews. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They seemed unwashed and desperate, like William Hale, who would eventually appear on his horse, in his ragged clothes—this man from nowhere. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mam tells Bridey she doesn’t know what she’s going to do with these stories from England, she never felt so desperate in her life. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I woke this morning with my head full of you, desperate to touch you. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted a drink at lunchtime; I was desperate for one after what happened in Witney this morning. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Bran looked up in desperate hope, and there he was. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Wes looked him up and down again, desperate to recognize him and put his mind at ease. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One was so desperate for relief that he moved into an air-conditioned theater, buying tickets to movies and sleeping through every showing. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z As Germany grew more desperate for soldiers, some boys who refused to join were threatened with accusations of treason or even execution. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Still, desperate to find some food—even a tiny morsel—I crept with care through what remained, fearful my steps might waken restless spirits. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The whole team stands on cue, desperate for some fresh, wet air, I presume. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But his eyes, his eyes looked desperate when he shook his head, chuckled, and said, “Oh, that Ronnie Remington, he talks in such circles that he could drown a man.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I was desperate for Mom or Dad to come pick us up, and also scared the call would go through and they’d answer. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Then he looked at Selitos with sudden, desperate hope in his hollow eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Or imagine a woman struggling with drug addiction, unable to obtain treatment, and desperate for money so she can feed her habit. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I opened them, desperate to find his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I was desperate for bread, meat, anything that wasn’t green. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z His confession left no room for doubt or questioning; he had been open with all the details of what he had done, desperate even to share them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He got unsteadily to his feet, taking in deep, desperate breaths of the close air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z From far away, I hear a single desperate whinny. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “An excellent remedy for the more stubborn forms of acne, bubotuber pus. Should stop students resorting to desperate measures to rid themselves of pimples.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Moving her lips rapidly, she held her rosary tightly and recited each Hail Mary with a desperate gravity, as though she were flinging anvils at the gates of Heaven. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph knew Florent wanted him to prove himself trustworthy to Albert, but he was desperate. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “The Fairy Queen is widely considered the most powerful figure in all fairydom. The groundskeeper had a desperate need and went to plead for her assistance. Apparently she was not impressed.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Gasping for breath, I rolled in the dirt in a desperate attempt to put myself out. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She seemed desperate for him to be quiet. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Your police chief must have a charitable heart. Either that or he’s desperate for warm bodies.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman desperate enough to sell her husband's opklapbed might do such a thing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I am not a desperate, unsteady child who throws his trust around. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He’s up and down on that float all day hoisting bags of coal and turf, desperate to keep the bandages in place on his legs so the dirt won’t get into the open sores. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She was desperate for warmth, but could only search for it in the witch’s eyes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The Clinic had prepared me for it, benumbing my sense of shame, and besides, I was desperate for money. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Tell me,” she said, desperate to hear more. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They were desperate, grim, taking the Miltown we had smuggled in to them, and still not sleeping. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he would stop dead in his tracks and say, with a desperate look in his eye: “Metahemeralism. Tell me about it. Everything you know. I gotta know something about metahemeralism.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “There’s always Rule 1. I thought of it—earlier—but it’s desperate.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Law school had seemed abstract and disconnected before, but after meeting the desperate and imprisoned, it all became relevant and critically important. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Boiling with anger at Snape, his desire to do something desperate and risky had increased tenfold in the last few minutes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t think she knows I exist,” said Ron with a desperate gesture. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Despite feeling desperate to reach out, Reggie had been instructed by his lawyer that doing so could be an admission of guilt. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I feel like I'm really intruding on her now, but I guess I'm desperate. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her arms reached out, desperate to possess him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I could tell Minnijean was trapped and desperate, and very fast running out of patience. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I know she’s desperate to get back to her mom, but taking risks when we’re so close to being safe isn’t the answer. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I am? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “When the war’s over I still won’t have a skill. Bet there won’t be this desperate need for radio operators when the war ends.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Sure, this wasn’t strictly why she’d given me her number, but I was desperate and ready to try just about anything. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I told her about my restlessness, how I was desperate to make a major change but worried about not making enough money if I did. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But I had never before felt such a desperate helplessness. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z People looked to me, eyes panting and desperate. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Surely those hunting dogs need to be fed! They sound entirely desperate!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I was desperate for any information that would rule her out as somebody somehow involved in the attack. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z This isn’t just a protest, it’s something far more dangerous—more desperate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But there were desperate fears building in him now as well. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I notice they’re both holding the bags of bathing suits I told them to bring, so I grab Camila’s out of her hand in a desperate attempt to change the subject. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z She looked so desperate, waving that cookie package. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z But the war made me feel desperate, and I wanted it to end. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They say she is desperate to birth an heir. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In a desperate way she wanted to see him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Instead, my heart’s hammering inside my chest, and I’m desperate to go home. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Claude, the Haitian cook, is desperate to get out of the two- room apartment he shares with his girlfriend and two other, unrelated people. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Boyle was desperate to show that polished marble plates would cease to cohere in a vacuum because Galileo had said as much. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I’m saying it’s no accident Poseidon has claimed you now. It’s a very risky gamble, but he’s in a desperate situation. He needs you.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z If Redemption’s safety was at stake, then it was worth it, this desperate attempt to get them to open their eyes and change their minds. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Ace and Sammy, taking their cue, pulled out their spoons and in a desperate foot race with each other dove onto the stage as soon as Bull ceased to throw up. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would; if there were no friend who loved me, who would save me such a pain, and so desperate an effort!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z His cat dæmon hurried after them, abject and desperate. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z On January nights I’m visited by desperate dreams of stretching myself out over the water, reaching for balance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lost in desperate speculation, Harry turned a corner, but he had taken only a few steps down the new corridor when the window to his left broke open with a deafening, shattering crash. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I made a desperate grab for the open gate in front of me, but it was well out of reach. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He took pity on the fierce, desperate little girl and didn’t send her away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Besides, food was uppermost in my thoughts, and I had desperate hopes that I might have come upon a survivor. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z But she began to see his desperate and relentless focus on her as something closer to obsessive need than love. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes—not very often, for inevitably it caused sadness—people described their places of origin: places with cruel governments, harsh punishments, desperate poverty, or false comforts. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I must have sounded pretty desperate, because she turned up within the hour. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He revived and started beating the water with vigorous, desperate strokes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z My desperate desire to leave South Africa led me to start taking risks, to allow people to use me to my advantage. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The middle class fell into poverty, and people became so desperate that the crime rate went up. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z It was not uncommon for some desperate, enterprising shebeen queen to throw dirty shoes, tobacco leaves or dirty underwear into the brew to speed up fermentation, so as to sell it before the next raid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Now there were three kings in the land, and war raged beyond the Trident while the city filled with desperate men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She knew how sad and scared and desperate they were. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I was right to say that he was desperate, desperate for a connection to Evelyn, desperate not to be damaged, but I never thought about how those things were connected. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He feels before he registers being shoved backward into a wall, and Henry’s mouth is on his, desperate and wild. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "Are you that desperate to follow your mom to the netherworld?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Beto was afraid to blink, desperate for the answer, desperate to know how to be safe. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He knew as much of ships and sails and shores as any man in the Seven Kingdoms, and had fought his share of desperate fights sword to sword on a wet deck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Maybe the horse was stolen, or the man was desperate for money. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Watch my class,” she cried in a desperate voice, and then trotted me down to the nurse. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Could it have been hunger that made him desperate, or was he frightened by something in the night? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He bit his bottom lip, a desperate measure to hold his body together at the mouth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And right behind Ivory were other tacklers equally desperate to dismember Rodrick Walker. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were most desperate, Father once again asked his friend Wojek, who lived outside the ghetto, to sell one on the black market. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The rest of our group advanced slowly, carefully, yet desperate to move quickly across the jaws of ice. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her curls had been wild, desperate for a comb. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I said, “Good morning. My granny is in desperate need of a dentist.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z To whom else would they turn, in that desperate moment, if not to the man who radiated common sense and dignity and all that was presidential? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I was fueled purely by the desperate need to make something happen. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z He sounded desperate and, despite myself, I felt bad for him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He could hear Alice whispering, desperate for Lyra to stay quiet. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He was desperate to keep Bonneville looking their way, because the man hadn’t yet noticed that his own boat was gone. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Uncle Al had the good fortune to be in the vicinity and was able to score a sleeping car and two flats for a song from railroad officials desperate to free up their siding. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “My Lord,” said a voice, desperate and cracked. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Thus did Mother Ermentrude in her wisdom deter me from my desperate course and guide me to a new path. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I stepped back, out of Fang's reach, air rushed into my lungs, pushing him out, he was back outside, just a desperate boy, no, two desperate boys, standing at the bottom of a towering rock. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z In the confined space he was desperate in his movements, as though suffocating. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Navy ships massed offshore, and desperate Vietnamese headed for them in small boats. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Just one of the half-knowledgeable butchers who plied their trade among the desperate of the Barrel. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She hurried toward it, moved by the excitement of the night, and desperate to join in. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They didn’t need him along, but Jesper was desperate for distraction. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For that brief moment, the grandmother looks vulnerable, desperate, human. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Broadfoot lived on the other side of the pond, in a dense section of forest that was home to many animals, most of whom were in desperate need of a good thaw. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Was there really a desperate hero inside of him or just a nervous skin condition? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z This was a time, like many other times, when hungry, desperate people sailed on crowded boats to settle here. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I set the bag down and can’t help my desperate stare at Ben. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "I'm desperate to see your different styles in action." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Mandy would be desperate if she knew I hadn’t eaten in three days and if she knew I was under the thumb of a monster like Hattie. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z After all, soon after Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the United States began shipping planes, tanks, cannons, and food to the desperate Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I texted back, trying not to sound desperate. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I went to Grandma’s bible, desperate, but it didn’t matter how many rosehips I put in my tea, how much lapis lazuli I hid under my pillow, I couldn’t get rid of the rage. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Bringing this little boy to justice was hardly the impressive feat she needed to accomplish, but she was feeling desperate. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z To the extent this represented a quantitative judgment, it was certainly true; yet in qualitative terms, it may be viewed as a desperate rationalization of a foregone conclusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And just like that, I was starting to flail, tossed without warning into deep water, drowning and desperate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It might not have been with lafamilia, but things hadn’t been that desperate in June, and there would have been somebody trustworthy who’d have agreed to take her and protect her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Volkheimer has also discovered a bucket of paintbrushes in a corner with some watery sludge in the bottom, but how desperate will they have to become to drink that? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her head broke the water, and she sucked in a loud, desperate breath that caught a few water droplets and sent her coughing and choking. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Usually cruelty inspired Ruth May no end, and I was just desperate to help her get her spirits back. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Every single desperate thought that ran through my head made me feel sick with disgust. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But now matters were so desperate that the ordinary gifts didn’t seem enough. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Semyonov knew it was a long shot, but he was desperate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The reply came as a violent, desperate howling inside her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A desperate person—say, someone trying to get the spider god to fix a mistake that had stirred up monsters—why, that person might try anything to get to Anansi in the palace above. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z If the outside of the Hema reflected what the old tent had once been, the interior clung to its former grandeur with a desperate grip. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z President Smith rubs his forehead and says quietly, “We are desperate for the food.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Angelica was desperate, and so was little Paolo behind her, and they reached their brother and seized his arms and tried to pull him away from whatever was troubling him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But when he came out of the trees, he found Alice on her feet, desperate. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He does not seem very desperate to be employed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But who would try to break into a fortified mountain, unless they were desperate, like us? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z His massive body shook the branches overhead as he struggled, desperate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Upon the one hill he stood with Gandalf, and there fair and desperate was raised the banner of the Tree and Stars. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was far from foolproof—and to be brutally honest with herself, it was more like a desperate grasping at straws than a plan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She turns left and right, desperate to see my face, but all she finds are strangers and street police and soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I tried not to yell, but I was getting desperate. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He watched her gasp for breath, watched her lean her head back, desperate for air, watched her cry openly. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z One time he was so desperate, he sucked the coating off chocolate-covered raisins, even though he hated raisins. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Telemakhos made answer: “No two ways about it. Will I pry you from our gunnel when you are desperate to get to sea? Come aboard; share what we have, and welcome.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When whites finally spread east to encounter the Xhosa at the Fish River in 1702, a period of desperate fighting began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was also desperate to see a friendly face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Her face slides off her face—no one can keep their faces on today—and the one underneath is desperate. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It’s the kind of downtown that becomes absolutely deserted at night and on the weekends, except for a few nightclubs half-filled with the desperate and the desperately lame. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Maybe some other group of desperate Midfolk had come for the Story Box. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They sleep despite noise, despite cold, despite hunger, as though desperate to stay removed from the waking world for as long as possible. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He eventually got a pass off, but it was so telegraphed and desperate that Marcus was able to intercept, and he took it to the hole for two points. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z It was a desperate thought—no way it would work— but I stabbed Riptide into the bridge. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Even though he was still sucking in short, desperate breaths, a little grin came on his face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s a sign of how desperate I am for information—and action—that I go to the control room with Zoe later that morning. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He would feel himself forsaken; his love rejected: he would suffer; perhaps grow desperate. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Because it was Sunday afternoon, and rainy, the reception area was packed with kids and grown-ups desperate for something to do, I guessed. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Being desperate for a ride didn't mean I was willing to forgive him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The man in the other room called again, this time extremely loudly, like he was desperate, but she didn’t pay any attention, like she didn’t hear it, or didn’t care. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Why could Briony not visit, even for a day, when everyone would adore to see her and was desperate for her stories about her new life? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He fought with the Old IRA and for some desperate act he wound up a fugitive with a price on his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Whenever someone was taken for a “visit” to La 40 or got desperate and began shouting or crying, we’d all start singing “O Lord, My Sturdy Palm When Cyclone Winds Are Blowing.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The memory kicked up a desperate fizz of...panic? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In January 1943, Soviet soldiers managed to get control of the railway in and out of Leningrad, allowing a little relief for the desperate citizens of the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Still, I couldn’t let the matter go entirely—T. Ray thinking I was so desperate I would invent an invasion of bees to get attention. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the level-headed James Chadwick recalled experiments at the Cavendish “so desperate, so far-fetched as to belong to the days of alchemy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She sounded both desperate and bemused, as if she couldn't understand why all parents didn't raise their kids to be ninjas. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z All this would happen in seconds, a year of training reduced to a single, desperate moment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A few hours later we woke up sweaty and anxious and once more walked as fast as we could, given how exhausted and starving we were, in a kind of hollow desperate silence. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s been desperate for me to win because she knew what would happen if I didn’t. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z As Pantalaimon fell, trying to twist away and make for the boat and Lyra’s desperate arms, the black things kept driving into him, droning, buzzing, and murderous. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But soon his hunger left; soon he was taking it a little easier; soon his mind rose from the desperate call of his body and concerned itself with the danger that lurked about him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Was I so desperate to survive that I would steal bread from a sick boy? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But the beating inside her is more desperate than hunger, a moth wild inside a lampshade. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine what sort of story you’d do on something like this, but maybe they were desperate for “human interest” material. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Hall pleaded in a desperate, breathless voice to anyone on the mountain who might be listening. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She’d been close to saying yes, desperate for cash and terrified of the slavers who patrolled the streets. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Local South African music was big, but black American music was what people were desperate for, hip-hop and R&B. Jagged Edge was huge. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z I sense the cameras on me, and feel the desperate hope of everyone who stands with me today. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The noise now became increasingly loud, its diesel hum goading everyone’s desperate hopes and deepest worries. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He had seen this drama close up, but until this moment he had never had to face the moral conflict of helping a desperate woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll come with you,” Ivy said, desperate for something to do. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She's testing me, to see how desperate I am to get what I came for. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Lonely, a bit desperate. She just wants to be involved in something.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she’d been too willing, too desperate, to see anything but what she wanted to see. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The cries of the men grew louder and more desperate. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z My dad tries to shoulder him out, but Malecki has the adrenaline of a desperate man, and pushes farther in. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A random series of events given meaning by someone desperate to prove there’s a design to our lives. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Saints, she’d thought, if he believes that, he really must be desperate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Polly hurried down the stairs and out to the kitchen, desperate to avert a tragedy. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The fact that I loved him in a sick, hurt, desperate way, like a child or a dog, did not matter. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The situation was getting desperate, and he tried again. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Hiskey explained that he and other scientists were “working with desperate haste” to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The desperate Astapori had pulled him from his tomb, clapped him into armor, and tied him onto a horse in hopes of giving heart to their Unsullied. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She had a sudden, desperate desire to get up and check on him, but there was nothing she could do, because she felt like she was on the verge of vomiting again. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They faced a pit of hungry reporters, all desperate for any scrap of new information. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I’m desperate to know if Hel is all right, I resist the urge to go to the infirmary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I clutch the vial in my fist, desperate for the relief it offers, the protection from the pain of every memory clawing inside me like an animal. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The ash of fireworks perhaps, or grass I’d uprooted in my desperate struggles. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I felt desperate to use the chamber pot, but first I had to face the hideousness that awaited outside. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When her lips touched his skin, he sucked in an involuntary, desperate breath and a weight slammed into his chest. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Will hadn’t taken his eyes off Mrs. Cooper, and his expression was desperate. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The empire’s enemies grew thin and desperate and even the most cynical of men could see the end of the war was drawing swiftly near. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That still left nearly 65,000 people in desperate need of help. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A desperate fury filled him, hot as hunger. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My life is now a desperate struggle for survival. . . with occasional titration. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Clutching it tight as a desperate lover, he shinnied up foot by foot. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The thought was calming and pleasurable, and not desperate at all. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I was desperate to get up, but I couldn’t make my legs obey me, couldn’t pull up my own weight with my stick-and-straw arms. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z So, even though the man is a stranger and I am afraid of him, I am worrying about his being sick, and the idea that he might die makes me feel quite desperate. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He’s sure St. Jude pulled me through the crisis because he’s the patron saint of desperate cases and I was indeed a desperate case. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He gave a desperate groan, a deeper sound than before, and then a series of strangling noises. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There must have been something desperate or pitiable in my voice, for he slung his coat back over the partition. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am desperate,” she said, forgetting to lower her voice. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z I roared as I gave the refrigerator one final, desperate push. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The actor clings to the horse’s mane with one hand to steady himself, the reins in the other, desperate not to fall off. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Back in the Black Belt, living conditions were fast becoming desperate. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Every muscle ached, and he longed to lie in his bunk, but he was desperate for food. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z His voice is high and meepy, and it breaks my heart for an adult to sound that way, so broken, so desperate. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly desperate for comfort, I reach for Tris’s hand, and she brings her fingers up to meet mine. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z A stubborn, desperate voice inside of Lazlo bargained with whatever might be listening. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I wonder what made a young boy desperate enough to aim a gun at one of them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The Augustus Waters of the crooked smiles and unsmoked cigarettes was gone, replaced by this desperate humiliated creature sitting there beneath me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z From beneath me came a desperate cry: “You’re crushing me . . . have mercy!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Nurse O’Halloran tells my grandmother, Pray to St. Jude, patron saint of desperate cases. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There’re men in black wool coats with leather gloves and soft scarves about their necks; women in high heels with jewelry and painted nails who aren’t desperate for food. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Some miners, desperate to make some money, tried to enter to work on the hoot-owl shift, but were chased away by union picketers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She saw grief-stricken children in desperate need, and every instinct within her impelled her to sweep them into her arms and nurture them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, you are right,” she says, her voice growing desperate with fear and longing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then she tries all over again to lead me through this exercise where I concentrate on nice thoughts so as not to get desperate— I have to stop and hide this. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No man would ever yield to a creature such as Reek, no matter how desperate his situation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But I didn’t know she’d been shot trying to reenter the country a few months after the war started, desperate to get back to her family. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And every time I hit that wall, a desperate, choking cry got knocked out of me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Near midnight, in desperate need of rest, he asked a passing policeman where he could spend the night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They whipped and whirled through a desperate choreography. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And there I was, one day later, standing on her front porch, desperate for her and her help. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He couldn’t focus on any one thing happening around him, though he was desperate to catch a glimpse of someone he recognized. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z A little desperate, sure, but this is love we’re talking about. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Each tiresome new thriller includes a scene in which the hero, trapped by some version of the enemy, runs for his desk in a desperate race against time. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps a bone at the butcher's or rotted vegetables at the grocer's, something no one but my family was desperate enough to eat. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z In several desperate efforts of concentration he willed her to appear but Remedios did not respond. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When I was carrying the twins I had such desperate cravings I sometimes went out at night on my hands and knees and secretly ate dirt from the garden. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Poor Mami is so desperate, she has to find someone to blame. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “For teaching me that desperate people deserve our compassion, not our judgment.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Instead I am asking myself whose destruction I am more desperate for. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If whoever sent the assassin had been desperate enough to send someone onto the Current of Faith, they shouldn’t have given up so easily. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “How do you know? If he was desperate enough—” “Careful,” said Tam Lin, looking straight into the view screen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, I did my best to keep my desperate poverty to myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Some dopey may be just desperate enough to tackle you.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like just a matter of time before one of us did something desperate and bullets started flying. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Like a factory, that boy,” she used to say to friends, and smiled a desperate smile meant to make her appear brave. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But lately he felt a desperate need to know, and right then the radio was his only means of finding things out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z August is agitated and desperate, moving from window to window, hauling himself up by his fingertips, weeping, oozing contrition. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He looked around at the empty plaza again, feeling less desperate than before. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Sun rose above the Harbor, we could see figures onboard the Ships — a desperate Call — the Watch first scrying us upon Bunker Hill. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Like him, they dressed shabbily, looked dirty, smelled bad, and were desperate for food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I remembered Elnora’s report of the desperate Hamlet at my door. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Some desperate civilians and soldiers were looting stores, stealing food from shopkeepers, callously killing to get what they needed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The brocaded hangings beamed on the walls in soft folds—and, on the floor, a desperate and reprehensible luxury, there was a genuine carpet. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to write urgent love letters to her all day long and crowd the endless pages with desperate, uninhibited confessions of his humble worship and need and with careful instructions for administering artificial respiration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Trabb’s boy might worm himself into his intimacy and tell him things; or, reckless and desperate wretch as I knew he could be, might hoot him in the High Street. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He was desperate enough to try some deer droppings, but spat them out immediately in disgust. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks at me with careful eyes—desperate eyes—but the light in them vanishes quickly, like a window being slammed shut. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “She was desperate about something. And she didn’t come to me.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Harry must have walked straight past him, so desperate to get to the mirror he hadn’t noticed him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn’t flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene pool and breeders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, young women across the nation were sending Marina thousands of desperate letters begging her to help them go to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He looked both angry and bewildered, something Nhamo would have enjoyed if her own situation hadn’t been so desperate. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re surrounded by darkness and danger, and in our desperate search for a way out we keep bumping into each other. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Despite their desperate hopes that the money would help them forget you, they soon understood no amount of riches could fill the hole you’d left in their lives. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I nodded, and we both began to wade through the waist-high shallows, fleeing the desperate haunted ships behind us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Ralph shook his paws in a last desperate attempt to Ember them. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z By evening he was desperate, but his luck turned when a rabbit, already changing to its white winter coat, suddenly started up from the long grass and swerved across his path. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Without thinking, I dove for it, too, desperate to rescue Eddie’s journal from the flames and from Gum Baby. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Compelled...even when I had a desperate need to do something else. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “About my cousin Arize. She hasn’t even been married a year and she is desperate to get pregnant.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She was desperate to be an engaged parent, 180 degrees of difference from how she felt her parents treated her. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Her eyes reminded me of that seven-year-old girl’s in the alley—angry, scared, desperate for a friend. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z By 1839, so many of the Chinese were addicts that China’s desperate government destroyed twenty thousand chests of opium. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that many people heard FitzRoy over the crowd, but those who did found him pathetic and desperate. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I guarantee you that he has about six of my presents picked out, and is desperate for some kind of hint about what else he should be getting me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Among all the other activities, desperate and urgent as they all were, the two sides that were searching for Malcolm and Lyra made their way steadily downstream towards the capital city. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Her gaze locked on Nailer again, desperate, pleading. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The final minutes of the game were desperate and dangerous. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z But the other street children made me unspeakably nervous, so I visited infrequently, only when I was in desperate need of help, or when I had something to share. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In spite of his calm demeanor, calm voice, he was charged and surcharged with a will to action, a readiness to take and enjoy any desperate chance. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The man on the radio station, fighting to survive, saw people that were desperate and selfish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z But before he could rush out and kill himself, even as he started to do so, his desperate purpose was changed and his life was spared. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and die solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The desperate debate lasted late into the night before Emperor Hirohito stepped in. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The daytime crowds had disappeared, leaving behind a few strays desperate to soak up what little light remained. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The Prince warded off the attempted bites with ease, and the ape was heaving at the chest now, desperate for air. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Just people like our old Head Peacekeeper, Cray, who bought desperate girls to devour and discard because he could. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then another hoarse scream erupted, sudden and desperate and just as suddenly silenced, broken off by lurid, ripping bone snap. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It seemed like Wilfrido was trying to play it cool—like he was trying not to come off as desperate. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The fighting grew no less desperate at the end of the war, which meant that no one was safe—not even from their own regulations. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He spread his hands and hoped he looked confident and useful, not desperate and terrified. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z With a desperate yelp, Frank jabbed his firewood into a pile of snow and extinguished the flame. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But even in a simulation, there is no way she is as desperate as I am. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The giants surged forward in a last desperate attempt. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They are dirty and weak, feral and hungry-looking, like I’ve wandered into the den of some wild, desperate pack with Max as their leader. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He felt desperate to make it clear that if he fell into a coma or died, they were to leave him behind. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The worst part of the job was jostling with other kids who were desperate like me. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But the sight of my mom’s face earlier, all the desperate love in her eyes, won’t leave me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She caught a quick glimpse of Wick by the far wall, his eyes wide and desperate. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I was desperate to ask him questions but knew they had to wait until we were alone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z At his summons, wheeling with a rending cry, in a last desperate race there flew, faster than the winds, the Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, and with a storm of wings they hurtled southwards to Mount Doom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Plus I was desperate to save my friends. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Folks were desperate for answers and trying to reconcile themselves to a situation that made no sense. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Trouble is tinker, I put myself into debt with a dangerous woman in order to buy this horse. If I don’t sell it well, I’m going to be in a desperate way.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Below him someone's legs were getting tired and the desperate ululation advanced like a jagged fringe of menace and was almost overhead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z For a moment, with the fear of my sister’s working me before my eyes, I had a desperate idea of starting round the room in the assumed character of Mr. Pumblechook’s chaise-cart. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Adam made one desperate jump backward and raised his hands to guard his face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The reply was only another desperate hoot blurted out into the night. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Maybe the one positive legacy the Trenchcoat Mafia left was to ensure that this message got heard by a society that seems desperate not to hear it. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But many years had passed since then, and the church was once again in desperate need of repair. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes cast a stern, desperate communiqué to her children. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It spins round and round the big yellow funnel for like a minute, making a rhythmic whirring sound that gets tighter and tighter, more intense, more desperate as it spirals closer to the hole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z When he had walked nearly around the entire town without seeing anyone and was just beginning to grow desperate, he heard the hooves of a horse behind him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When no help had come by October 7, Burgoyne launched a desperate attack. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you really think I’d ever be so desperate as to take my clothes off for money? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Every day he received letters thanking him for his cure; every day hundreds of desperate people lined up outside his door or sent him frantic notes asking for his help. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z How do we help make the world a better place for all the hurting, desperate people and animals? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Books on shelves that rose to the high ceiling, books in stacks on the floor, books holding up a potted violet in desperate need of water. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Sammy went to his knees, emitting desperate sounds of strangulation as he tried to catch his breath. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Day broke into the laboratory for medicine as part of a desperate, last-minute, poorly thought-out plan. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Perhaps a few, the younger arid more foolish who still believed that the gods heard the prayers of desperate men, took it for deliverance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I’m about to say, desperate to change the subject. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I tottered in the aisle, desperate to preserve my balance—and my dignity—as well as a grip on my bags and my cat. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Or the desperate person in the other room? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But Chigger got lucky because Miranda was on a losing streak and was starting to get a little desperate. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It showed how desperate Generose had become that she was willing to leave her six-month-old daughter in the care of her three sons, ages seven, thirteen, and fifteen. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He might have been responding to the need in Tessie’s eyes, her desperate yearning to believe that there was something instead of nothing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Away from books I was, at times, almost desperate to fill up the spaces of my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I couldn’t bear the thought of my two best friends knowing how desperate my situation was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I found myself suddenly desperate to join the celebration. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But the German people were desperate for change, and many believed Hitler's message that he was their savior. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z But soon, what I thought was my heartbeat was a desperate knocking on the front shutter. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m being good,” a frightened, desperate little voice replied. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He could not entirely blame them, when they were so desperate for a lead on the Horcruxes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Religion neither convinced nor moved him, and after hours of sitting in a pew, muttering prayer after prayer, he was in desperate need of some fresh air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When Gates saw the desperate conditions in James Town he decided to abandon the settlement and take the remaining survivors back to England. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Privately, in another desperate attempt to cauterize the Watergate wound before it spread all the way to the president, Nixon had pressured his two closest aides to step down. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Children as young as three, bewildered, desperate, populate these foster homes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The following week she was back in the air, in a desperate battle that ended with her having to parachute out of her crippled plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I sit staring at the screen, suddenly desperate to know more. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Her maimed fingers clutched against his back with a desperate strength, as if to hold him safe forever in the shelter of her arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Phones were raised up high, too, poking up above the crowd, their owners desperate to get a good shot. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I hate to do this to Baba but I'm desperate. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I guess because I am so desperate for an answer. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z If he’s desperate enough to mention our falling-out, then I know he’s worried something fierce. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Haven’t you gotten desperate enough to stay out there overnight, see if maybe something opens while the walls are moving?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But many of the strongest and most desperate got out on the west side, and attacked their enemies fiercely, being now more bent on killing than escaping. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “The boys wouldn’t do anything like that now, not when people are desperate for protection!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I was prepared to reveal whatever was required for him to take me seriously, which would have probably been significant given how tattered and desperate he thought I was. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if in seeking out suffering in some of the world’s most desperate locales, he made himself immune to the emotional pain that came more typically to the rest of us. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I lost track of how many desperate hours went by. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Farmers were desperate for everything—shovels, plowshares, candle molds, churns, and all the rest of it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She wondered if the expression in his eyes was a desperate plea. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A hollow, desperate disappointment made his hands feel sweaty and his heart lose the rhythm of its beat. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s a desperate feeling I can understand and relate to. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Judge Ford regarded the desperate doorman without pity. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She hooted sleepily, dipped her beak briefly into his goblet of orange juice, then took off again, clearly desperate for a good long sleep in the Owlery. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As days turned into weeks and the likelihood of finding Father deteriorated, our situation became increasingly desperate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I said, desperate to break the silence and get things back to normal. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What I later understood was that my mother was making a desperate effort to preserve her pride—and ours. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t know that he was driven by a desperate hope to appear the old-time body in her sight. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z To bypass the locked circuit, start the engine, steer the boat out of dock under the pier-lamps and so off to Orgoreyn, having never run a motorboat, seemed a silly desperate venture. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z If you are feeling desperate, a badger is a good thing to be. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Did he want to spend the rest of his life feeling that desperate? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z In a long and desperate day of travel, they penetrated fifty miles away from the Congo River, and finally, toward evening, they came to a row of round, thatched African houses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other part of me yearned for desperate and dramatic change, to leave Fentress far behind. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, God, Hazel. I’m sorry. I was wrong, sweetie. That wasn’t true. I said that in a desperate moment. It’s not something I believe.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Postulating the existence of such a mysterious force was a desperate act. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Whenever I returned, though, he would leap to me with his arms over his head, desperate for a hug, like he’d only been biding time until I came back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Around them, the books began to run about, desperate to restore some order. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They are too busy whispering sharply with the other teachers, fighting over the reasons why Germany is so desperate for Adolf Hitler. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He watched Benny go to the door and pull on it, his small body looking even smaller as it became more desperate. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One Saturday, not even having collected the price of the doors, he fell into a desperate confusion. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But which of the members of the king’s council would be so desperate to win that he’d do such a thing? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I’d never known. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My stomach started to feel weird, and strangely I felt a little desperate to see what was going to happen next. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She stared at him for a moment, and then, slowly, a new look gathered in her eyes—resourceful, crafty, and a trifle desperate. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z But calm or no, the situation was desperate. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z He twisted in the cockpit, desperate to see what happened. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z In a last, desperate effort, Jonathan twisted violently, butting his head into the old soldier’s chest. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z And when God stops whispering, they become desperate for someone who can put things right. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Pleas spilled from her lips, a desperate trickle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I feel like one of those saints the Doctorita is always praying to, like the Virgin of Banos in elegant robes and a giant crown who does miracles for desperate people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an opening, and I was desperate enough to take it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Besides, she says, he’s back at work at Rank’s Flour Mills and please God this job will last a while with the war on and the English desperate for flour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Complete silence fell in the clearing, and all seemed peaceful and quiet in contrast to the wildly beating heart of the desperate, trapped cat. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And the woman with the ponytail at the orientation and the desperate man who was so quiet as they took him away after his partner was disappeared. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z At this point, my parents were more desperate than they'd ever been. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I visited the clerk several more times, becoming more and more desperate, until, finally, a solution was found. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They had drawn up for a last desperate fight, blades in hand and backs to the rock. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her desperate voice rings out in the empty house. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Moss stopped and rested against the dumpster, desperate to catch his breath as his friends poured out of the doorway. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z And she had never felt so unsure of herself, so desperate, so afraid. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The reply was only a desperate howl within her. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But desperate as that road might be, his task was now far worse: not to avoid the gate and escape, but to enter it, alone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He did desperate violence to his naked body among the rasping creepers so that blood was sliding over him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z She immediately went to talk to the chief nurse, who told Adams they were desperate for good nurses in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z With the US government desperate to gain a foothold in the space race, Langley now could open its garage door and display its wares for the world to see. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Spanish sack of Tawantinsuyu calamitously expanded on this tradition of plunder, which has greatly accelerated in modern times, fueled by the desperate poverty of Peru’s Indian population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I used to have more of his work, but I had to sell them off every time things got too desperate, chipping away at his memory in order to survive his absence. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Both Adams and Jefferson, it turned out, were too deeply shaped by the desperate struggle against England to foresee the Anglo-American alliance that flourished throughout the Victorian era and beyond. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A desperate fear of letting your parents down, of not getting recruited by some overpriced country club that passed for college, Dartmouth or wherever. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Dr. Malone looked at Lyra’s desperate frown and clenched fists, at the bruises on her cheek and her leg, and said, “Dear me, child, calm down.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Helping the most desperate people first was how they would change the way the world perceived poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Then I got so desperate I asked her if she would loan it to me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, Lyra’s hands were deft, and she was desperate to help; so the small human tent over the great bear-king, packing in the bloodmoss and freezing the raw flesh till it stopped bleeding. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z One day another desperate soul might use that route. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I knew he had been arrested and I was desperate to talk to someone who shared my messed-up feelings and situation. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s marvelous, in a desperate kind of way, to opt for speed over subtlety—like screaming downhill to put out the fire when your aircraft’s in flames. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She could not even whisper the desperate, wailing cry that throbbed in her chest. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In a final, desperate act, she gave Dad an enema, pushing the tube in as far as she dared, trying to flush enough liquid through his rectum to keep him alive. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z One made a small, desperate motion with his hand. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As if he were scratching behind the ear of a Yorkie in desperate need of grooming. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z In desperate straits she can make us laugh, with her main talent being radio commercials oozed out in a fabulous fashion-model voice: “Medically tested Odo-ro-no, stops underarm odor and moisture at the source!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But a few months earlier, Allen had been in a desperate firefight along with two white guys from his platoon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z And so Chess saw in stark detail that Mom was staring straight at him, her desperate wince full of not just anguish but hope—and maybe even faith as well—as she pleaded, “Kids, please.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z So the desperate journey went on, as the Ring went south and the banners of the kings rode north. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Neel threw his sister one last desperate look before racing toward the tamarind tree. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z After two weeks and ten jumps, Uncle Al is so desperate he approaches a woman of generous proportions in the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There was something desperate, almost insane, about the sharp spasmodic yelps to which they now' gave utterance. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time I look at him, I realize that he’s the only family I have left and I feel desperate, desperate to keep him around, desperate to narrow the gap between us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, if Will hadn’t just called things off, you would never have asked that. Don’t be desperate.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z "All right, all right," I called out, feeling desperate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman begins to protest, in a whiny desperate voice. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I know how I felt when I was desperate to find my parents. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She didn’t want to look desperate, but she’d never felt like she needed her best friend so badly in her entire life. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z They were desperate for water and would not be stopped. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Schools closed, parents panicked, and the public grew desperate for a vaccine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They were dirty, desperate, and on the run. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m desperate to know where she’s gone, if it was all just a fluke. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc’s captain once said, “An officer who hunts desperate criminals has no business having a wife and family.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It’s the only thing keeping her total and desperate loneliness at bay. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Even a few minutes were a desperate struggle. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “We have to go back to Peshawar,” said Zafoona, sounding more desperate by the minute. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She only knew that the closer she got, the more desperate she felt to leave. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z My body shakes with anticipation—ever since I saw that video I’ve been desperate for answers, and I’m about to get them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z What we now think of as the essence of Sesame Street — the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults — grew out of a desperate desire to be sticky. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He claws at her dress like it's a present he's desperate to unwrap. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She fixed plasters for the child’s chest, trying to turn it into a game, desperate to hide her own terror. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z He was desperate to find a means of transportation other than his aching legs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I’m trying to hold it together and stay patient, but I’m getting desperate. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I was desperate to feel what she was feeling. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I felt his struggles suddenly grow more desperate and lifted my face to see why. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He had a wild, desperate air and his ears twitched continually. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Realizing that his next move might ruin his life, Bobby, whose life on the chessboard had always been about preparation and calculation, decided that people in desperate positions must take desperate chances. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘He is debating which course is the most desperate, I think,’ said Aragorn. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She was aware of the bargains people made in desperate situations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was thinner than ever, large tuffs of hair had fallen out leaving wide bald patches, and he writhed in Ron’s hands as though desperate to free himself. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When I look around at the people in Chinatown, I don't feel like I'm desperate for their acceptance. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Gambling on Warcross is illegal in the United States; it’s one of the many laws the government has recently passed in a desperate attempt to keep up with technology and cybercrime. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He kept digging into their lives, getting more and more desperate, until the front door opened and Scythe Faraday returned. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z By God, ’tis a desperate situation altogether when you can’t turn your back but tenants are not paying their rent and making walls and rooms disappear on top of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I say, desperate, thinking of everyone from the mosque on my friends list who’d see it on their news feeds. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He looks at his son, desperate to reach out. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I glance at the door, willing it to start shaking from the pounding of Mamita’s desperate fists. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Games were such a hit here, where the berries were only a symbol of a desperate girl trying to save her lover. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Time and again Pocock explained that he was desperate for business but could not reduce prices: “No one who has ordered a boat this year has asked for it. They know they are worth it.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This time he didn’t feel the desperate loneliness and fear of four days earlier. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A white man opened it, took one quick look at my face, then pushed the door almost shut again, as though in desperate defense of himself and his home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z This guy was real desperate for a friend because even though I wouldn’t say much back to him he kept jabbering away at me all through class. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Within half a dozen years of the initial conquest, Incas mounted two desperate, large-scale, well-prepared rebellions against the Spaniards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was desperate to make contact with American tennis players; the lure of playing in a tournament with some of the best names in tennis was irresistible; I agreed to play. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1994 I put in an application to take the next correction-officer exam and, several months later, I sat down with a test booklet in a large room full of people desperate for a job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Be glad that not everyone is desperate for food like we are.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Even now, as an adult, he was still the litde brother full of desperate love, trying to win an approval that he feared he never would. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We were a needy bunch of baby birds who had fallen out of our original nests and were desperate for any scrap of attention. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Please,” I say, and I’ve never heard my voice sound so desperate. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I look out the window with desperate eyes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She seemed desperate to make me understand, but I didn’t. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And though the sweat floods off me and my muscles burn, desperate for rest, I feel alive, obscenely alive. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Not just because he sounds panicked, desperate, but because I want to see him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she said, “Isn’t there someone from work, maybe, or the rugby club?” and Damien said, “For Rachel? Not being funny, Cath, but I’m not sure I know anyone that desperate.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “He must be very desperate, or very frightened, or very stupid, or very brave.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Still, she thought, Roger must have felt like that as he plunged down the mountainside, trying to cling to her desperate fingers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z But did I mention before that I’m desperate to hold on to my old BFF/sister from another mister? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z By 1955, Paramount would be desperate to exit the field; Ernest, feeling duty-bound to help his financial partner reduce its exposure to losses, went on the road to help Paramount find a buyer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By then Herbie was desperate, and so, leaping at the chance to converse with a relatively friendly English-speaking person, he blurted, “Excuse me, sir, but maybe you can help me, I’m looking for Mr. Cantu.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I went to find the student store, desperate for something else to wear in the meantime. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He says, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, this is a desperate situation. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Could we be so desperate for drinkable water that we’re willing to destroy the very machines that could create it, just to get that first sip? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Mostly these men were all so desperate or confused by the time I appeared, with my neutral Swiss-accented German and comfortingly official checklist, that they were often gratefully cooperative, if not wholly bewitched. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Beowulf took the role of her desperate sea captain father, while Alexander ran about them as the storm, howling like the wind, and quite convincingly, too. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z That tide of food, water and rest that flowed through my weakened system, bringing me a new lease on life, also brought me the strength to see how desperate my situation was. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Locked up day after day, month after month, the children grow desperate. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Then I veer sideways in a desperate attempt to save myself. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A volunteer lawyer had challenged the intent questions in a desperate appeal but was unsuccessful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z What agony of starvation this woman had endured, with the starved creature gnawing at her from within, desperate for its own life! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I am desperate for a brief moment of Before with David. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She saw him as a “conscientious officer” who was in desperate need of help, and she listened to what he had to say. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There were times when Lefty’s need seemed so desperate, so pitiful, that she couldn’t resist giving in to him. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That my father and my grandfather were so desperate for a powerful heir, to prevent the end of the Malfoy line, that they . . . that they used a Time-Turner to send my mother back . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Acererak made a final, desperate move to avoid my charge and dropped a micrometer too low. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To Jethro’s surprise he felt his brother’s large rough hand close over his own with a heavy pressure, as if somehow the owner of that hand felt a desperate need to clutch at something. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But I knew the thought to be just that, desperate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was scared and hurting and desperate and it felt good. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And cold and footsore as well, in no condi-tion for a fight... but the storm will make them desperate to get inside the castle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Small rocks leaped up in the air, desperate to escape Beverly’s wrath. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Even though I was desperate for these answers, I wanted Amil to stop asking questions. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On the way I try to make myself look sympathetic, so that people as poor and desperate as I am will give me food and protection. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Most Ravenclaws seemed to think that he had been desperate to earn himself a bit more fame by tricking the goblet into accepting his name. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Can you heal him?” said Lyra, her voice desperate. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A medic performs mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in a desperate attempt to save the life of a seriously wounded fellow medic, 1969. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z We had enough food on our table, but emotionally and spiritually speaking, I felt like I was desperate, begging for sustenance. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was Powell who broke the desperate silence. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z There was nothing desperate about it, just the bawling of an upset infant. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Was I losing myself completely in my desperate bid to become her? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Given his training and the desperate situation with the Japanese, he figures he’ll be heading to the Central Pacific to assist Allied forces in that region, but nobody knows for sure. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That January, he was desperate enough to check into a hospital again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I cover myself to the shoulders with his blanket and close my eyes, seeing his face, the desperate way it looked today when he told me what happened with his mother. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “My name is Kvothe, I am a trouper and one of the Edema Ruh. Never on my most desperate day would I lie to a tinker.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It suddenly occurred to Hazel that these desperate interruptions seemed to follow any question beginning “Where?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod like I agree, which I don’t, but I need this conversation to end because I’m desperate to text David to find out if he’s okay. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z My poor child has given herself over to fear, and that fear has made her desperate to validate her misperceptions. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I think my teammates and coach were so desperate for her to do well enough to move past me in the rankings, they pushed her too far. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z A scratching noise in the corner of the room had woken me, the scrambling feet of a desperate mouse about to become breakfast for a lumpy orange cat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know which one of us is more desperate to get it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He made a desperate effort to take the Controller’s meaning. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not resemble the patients in the doctor’s office, those who came glassy-eyed and desperate, unable to sleep or breathe or urinate with ease, unable, above all, to give words to their pains. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The hems of her jeans were smudged with dirt, and she carried a journal under her arm that Virgil was desperate to read. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Desperate times call for desperate measures, it is often said. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was like she was desperate to know more. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He did look, at times, both shabby and desperate; in other words, a potential criminal. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Macon was clean-shaven; Milkman was desperate for a mustache. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Still his fury held for one more blow, and before she could sink upon him, smothering him and all his little impudence of courage, he slashed the bright elven-blade across her with desperate strength. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And if I were you I’d be desperate to talk to her. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I rubbed my shoulder where the woman had bruised it with her desperate blows. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The idea of the organ was a last desperate attempt to win the hand of Cousin Antonieta after more conventional means of courting her had failed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the animal was more than scarred and dirty; he was frantic and desperate. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Wasn't there an old joke about the wife who talked so much on the telephone that her desperate husband ran out to the nearest store and telephoned her to ask what was for dinner? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z More desolate, more desperate than ever, it seemed from contrast. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They flailed at their oars, digging them too deep in the water or too shallow, out of time with one another, angry and desperate to catch up, losing all semblance of form. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I’m fine,” Toby said, sounding so desperate and fragile he could barely stand to hear himself. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I remembered aching for my mother when I was in foster care, desperate to climb on her lap, smell her musky perfume, have her stroke my hair and call me “Sunshine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Her old fears of the Revolution and the Marxist-Leninist menace had been rekindled by new television worries about the growing numbers of desperate and dispossessed people. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I am free to act as desperately as I wish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “She says she was the one who made the mistake. She didn’t know what else to do. I think she’s desperate. She has two children.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It’s generally thought of as a place even more desperate than the Western frontier. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I needed a gaelet, one of the dangerous men who lend money to desperate people. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was desperate to find a place where he could breathe. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Why am I compelled to do as Mother says even when I have a desperate need to do something else? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “Which is what?” asked Harry, turning to look Ron full in the face, desperate for the answer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I’m not being desperate! I’m just...regaining my mojo! Like you said last night.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She cast a last desperate look into the darkness, praying for some sign of Kaz. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The rural economy of the United States had already been in desperate straits for some time by that fall. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was not that Elaine was going to be a nun because she was desperate. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was back in Ithaca having a most desperate quarrel with Edward. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He was desperate to not die, and even more than that, to live. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At first, they were working on a desperate plan to get a probe here before Sol 400. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They banged their desperate fists against the glass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Under the headline “At 60 M.P.H., Office Work Is High Risk,” the story quoted businesspeople describing the desperate need to respond to client inquiries within seconds, or risk losing a sale. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I was desperate to learn about what was happening back home, but even on days when there was no news about Cuba, I still read all the articles. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I started gasping, desperate to keep everything inside me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And quickly, desperate to change the subject, I ask, “Where did you get that pretty barrette?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was desperate to talk to Colonel Regan about our release from the city but dared not leave Ruth alone in the house with Madam Lockton. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They all look the same— dirty and desperate and dangerous. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Was he in hiding, desperate to avoid this disaster? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He paddled closer, and the dogs went wild, their desperate sounds coming from within. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Hygeia’s McElroy, under mounting pressure from Burnham, turned to desperate measures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For a fraction of a second I was desperate, feeling some of my justification for wanting to kill him slipping away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran headlong at me: I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z One thing for certain, he knew I was in desperate trouble. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a moment—this will tell you how desperate I was—when I thought I might ask Mr. Goldman about another play. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I made excuses for him, desperate to validate the reasons he chose to work with me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He looked so desperate that she didn’t know where to look. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Is she so desperate for company that she wants to hang out with me? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I didn’t say a word, but I was desperate for her to realise I wasn’t with the girls behind me, and had had no part in whatever it was that had made her cross. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Some nights Edmond had to lock her in the barn if we wanted to be alone but secretly I felt desperate for her because I knew exactly how she felt. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The Irish Sea is desperate at this time of the year. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z From the direction of the mausoleum there came a high, hopeless cry, not a scream, just a desperate wail of protest. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I had stupidly left it there, and another prisoner, perhaps even colder and more desperate than I, had taken it. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I got so desperate that I started trying to talk to her using hand signals. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The squirrel lurched left and made a desperate leap up onto my clean laundry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But if someone was desperate enough, he could break the doors down. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He started shoving his scavenged wire aside, suddenly desperate for clean air and light. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I had learned that Devi was the person anyone could ask for a loan, no matter how desperate the circumstances. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "You make a very good point. There are starving and desperate people in this world, aren’t there?" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z We get bogged down in traffic for several miles, and even though Radar is desperate to violate the speed limit, he’s lucky when he can go thirty. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I had never seen people look so desperate. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I spat and coughed, desperate to expel the scent of sea brine clogging my lungs. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They both stared at her, desperate and almost . . . almost hopeful. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Hermione had lisped and pranced and pirouetted through their childhoods, showing off at every available moment with no thought—so her scowling, silent older sister believed—for how ludicrous and desperate she appeared. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Thomas looked back at his captors, feeling awkward but desperate to ask questions. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He didn’t have any other friends in this class, but Moss still let his attention wander, desperate to get out of this room. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z My stomach was growling now, and I could feel Otto, desperate to eat, grazing his teeth on the back of my neck. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Are you all really so desperate that you’d stake everything on him? Why, he’s just a boy—a soft- bellied normal who knows next to nothing of our world!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Do you have a poem for us, though? From your head?” she asked, and sounded desperate even to herself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "If there was one soul in King's Landing who was truly desperate to keep Robert Baratheon alive, it was me." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So, like any desperate type, I start breaking into them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Panic flared into a desperate rush of yelling and pushing. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Bobby had been locked up for over a month at this point and was becoming desperate. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I was desperate to escape the institution of idiots. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He became the invincible Gael, the scion of desperate races more ancient than Arthur’s, and more subtle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I never used public restrooms unless I was absolutely desperate. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z He read all her movements as signs and when she was close to coming retreated just enough so that her excitement became more desperate. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Is there some knowledge I’m desperate to impart? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no lock on the door, but I was desperate for a shower. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I asked, still pulling against Jacob’s grasp, desperate now to find the sun. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z In a desperate attempt to keep the pressure off the ship, Shackleton ordered some of the men over the side to hack away at the floes, with the axes, and picks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In a small desperate voice he began: Ho! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z These were mainly days of quiet, desperate waiting for what seemed at the time to be inevitable. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A part of me had been waiting, I think—desperate to see if I could fix what I had done to my friend. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The pain made her desperate for distraction, and she looked at the preacher in the eyes for the first time. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I was desperate to tell Leah about all this stuff and how totally great it was to have no grown-ups around telling you what to do all the time. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But now I am desperate to be her pal, her buddy, to giggle with her, to gossip with her. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, desperate to keep exploring, and realizing she would never again have this opportunity, Maria pressed on, raising more species, checking her findings, sketching and recording every transformation in her study book. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A desperate cry from somewhere deep in my belly. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Most are desperate to stay out of sight. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They are desperate enough to try anything to make amends. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Although the event will be little remembered in history, witnesses will swear they have never seen more suffering or such desperate fighting as during the final moments of the Battle of Sayler’s Creek. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But beyond all that there was something in the air, an outpouring that seemed unusually powerful, almost desperate. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole environment, moreover, was damaged by their desperate efforts to find food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Well! The paper said Mr. Micheaux has a new film coming later this year, and I am desperate to see it on opening night. You will have to come with me, chickadee. I demand it.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z His wife’s nagging complaints hadn’t begun to make Father Mike think about leaving the priesthood yet, and hadn’t led him to his desperate act. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z With a desperate lash of its tail the rodent bolted between Mrs. Clarke’s legs, through the doors of the ballroom, and disappeared into the vast house beyond. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He’d need a very specialized team, a desperate team that wouldn’t balk at the real possibility that they’d never come back from this job. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z But I’m not so desperate that I’ll put her life at risk. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z My parents both hurry to situate me into it, their eyes desperate. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The assassin of the president was in there, injured, desperate, and on the run from a manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas asked, thinking it kind of strange that Chuck was suddenly acting like an adult instead of the little kid desperate for a friend he’d been only moments earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But I worried it might seem like the desperate elaboration of a child caught in a lie. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I had them both on their feet with the desperate suggestion that they help me make tea in the kitchen when the demoniac Finn brought it in on a tray. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I sink down next to the fire, desperate for comfort, to work out my next move. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Summoning all his courage, in one desperate moment, Jack pulled out the letter with the Nazi stamp and thrust it at the officer. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Nina had been too young to fight in the Ravkan civil war, and she’d been desperate to be part of the rebuilding of the Second Army. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I spat out my flavorless Juicy Fruit, desperate for a way out. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In the real world, some doctors peddled drugs on the black markets, desperate patients sold their antibiotics to buy food, and stupid pharmacists mixed up prescriptions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She says if the post office is hiring the likes of you they must be in a desperate way altogether, go down and put on that kettle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z A terrible, shameful image comes to me: Kamal with his delicate hands, his reassuring manner, his sibilant speech, contrasted with Scott, huge and powerful, wild, desperate. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was kind of the trader and his wife to be sympathetic, but they had no idea how desperate the villagers were. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You, however, are still branded a drug felon, homeless, and desperate to regain custody of your children. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Raising his head, mouth wide open, he convulsed, frantic and desperate to dislodge the grass. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I know too much; I have seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Terrified, I made a short and desperate prayer to Saint Giles, imploring his blessings on the priest and on myself. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It gets so desperate he decides to kill one of the chickens and starts eyeing the goat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Marco nods, still not entirely certain about the idea but almost desperate for some kind of strategy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I just had to get rid of some weight. I was desperate.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Hitler was now desperate and had called up all remaining men and boys. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I knew many of them were feeling desperate — for food or for the healing of an illness in themselves or a loved one. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Since I was alone now with her, and desperate, I cast my loyalties aside and told her the name of the guilty boy, feeling that he merited no consideration. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I shouted in a desperate attempt to distance myself from Katz’s monstrosity. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z In spite of my perfidy, she was desperate to see me one more time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “I heard that they consider it a sure sign that the person is either possessed of low blood or fallen on truly desperate times....” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He sounded so desperate to his own ears. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Harry leaned still closer to the door, desperate to hear more. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I guess the three of us are desperate to move on with our lives. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I felt a desperate need to tell the others what I had seen. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Every night on her way back from her bath Meme would find a desperate Fernanda killing butterflies with an insecticide bomb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Jessie Armstead had been flying by him on the play, and desperate to do something to stop him, Duncan had tackled him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He called four more times before he gave up and finally left a message more desperate than he liked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Nicole would tell me later that up to this point Dave was a sweetheart and a total gent, but that afternoon he was jacked up on too many Red Bulls or whatever, desperate. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z And as they thrust forward, jostling and desperate, the Gallivespians flew down and darted to and fro in front of them, to prevent them from crowding too close. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z So terrified was I that some irregularity would interfere with enlistment—some unforeseen objection—I perhaps answered with too great an exactitude, too punctilious a range of detail—desperate for approbation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The sight of the blood had made Seven’s stomach turn, her fear becoming desperate worry. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z But what could it possibly have mattered to them that, after the broken treaty and Neto’s desperate plea for help, the Cubans were the only ones to answer it? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Clumps and clusters of birds in flight were questing back and forth, black dots against the blue sky, moving in some kind of desperate Brownian motion. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She just talked, in a flow that made her seem alternately questioning and desperate to be heard. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He shook his jacket, and Meggie thought she heard a quiet, desperate tinkling. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Or I’m that desperate for things to change. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Yesterday I got desperate and boiled some old potatoes and ate them with nothing but salt and pepper. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So desperate was his flight that he had dropped his sword and not bothered to retrieve it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Now three-quarters of the people in his parish agree with his work. says, the migrants would be even more desperate, and the impact on the city would be worse. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z His audible, almost desperate breaths reminded me of my grandfather when he was dying of lung cancer. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The room transforms around them, becoming darker and more desperate. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z We were desperate to craft more keys, to give shape to the kind of Indians who could not be robbed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Phaedra, in her anguish, desperate, seeing no help for her anywhere, resolved to die and let no one know why. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But after a few hours you were shaking, filled with a desperate hunger for more, and that hunger grew worse the longer you used it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I am suddenly desperate to go talk to Stuart, like every second I’m away I’m losing him. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The next day they went into battle with the desperate courage of brave men cornered. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But one night, desperate to practice our steps with the gentler sex, we put on our suits, stole out of our dormitory, and made it to the dance-hall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He got so desperate, he asked Mother if she’d thought about going over to visit the new neighbors, to welcome them to the area. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z With one last desperate look back at Ron, Harry and Hermione charged through the door and up the next passageway. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Arturo, if we go around acting as if we are desperate to win the favor of the community, then we will fail.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I am sorry, Jezebel. But I was desperate.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z My eyes sweep the tent, desperate to the point of panic. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Are you writing in your notebook?” he asked, his face and voice suddenly, oddly, desperate. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of a desperate day is peace. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I was so desperate to hear a familiar voice that I resorted to talking to Max. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene sucked air through his teeth, a small desperate whistle. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He could hear the gurgling, the desperate attempts to breathe, but he didn’t dare move his head to see if she was okay. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Tarbean is full of dangerous people, but none as dangerous as a sweet-eater filled with the desperate craving for more resin. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When he looked up and saw the car bearing down on him, despite the desperate clucking from all around, he froze, staring. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I flick on the radio, desperate for noise to fill my ears. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Is this another desperate ploy for some way to defeat me? More yearbooks? So futile.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The boy next to them was Shu, but he looked far too young to be the scientist they’d all been so desperate to get their hands on. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And I suppose tapes, like photographs and videos, are a desperate attempt to steal something from death’s suitcase. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was cruel to desert the helpless sufferer, but they were desperate to get on to Troy, and with his bow and arrows he would at least never lack for food. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s making me desperate to enjoy as much of him and make as much of our friendship as possible while I still have time. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z At last he found what seemed to him the right place, though the decision was desperate. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Those fish were slippery and desperate, and I was just plain desperate. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now go, dear, but don’t kill yourself driving at a desperate pace. There is no need of that.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least see what they want!” she yells, desperate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They had no fuel nor any means of making torches; in the desperate scramble at the doors many things had been left behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There was a third bundle of coins baked into the stale loaf of bread that only the most desperate of criminals would be interested in. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Really? That’s the desperate hero, risking his life for a chance to escape the mighty Roc?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The desperate look on all the men’s faces means that Pupo is someone really important they have to find. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He stood there, straining his eyes to see her—as if that would help—and straining his memory too, desperate to believe that he was mistaken. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She screamed and screamed—screams of the utmost terror—wild desperate cries for help. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Worse, he is so desperate that he sacrifices it at a discount, for 40 pesos. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She couldn’t imagine any good coming of her continuing to possess the poor girl, but she was also desperate to speak with her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I should tell you that there was no shade around this side of the house, so things were getting sort of desperate in the Thirsty Department. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He suddenly felt a desperate need to get out of the house as fast as he could. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Her arms were looped around his head and when she tightened her grip he rose through it, desperate to breathe, up to his full height and enfolded her, crushing her head against his chest. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I’m desperate to prevent her tears, but not because I’m noble or anything. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It was filled with profanities of various sorts which it was difficult, even in the most desperate of circumstances, to imagine Bunny using in a letter to Julian. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z These shameless corporate sleazebags wouldn’t stop until they found someone dumb enough or desperate enough to give in and sell them the information they needed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was no time to act like a desperate teenager. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z No matter how desperate for money I was, I knew giving in would reveal that I was desperate on the inside in an even worse way—and I wasn't, not anymore. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z His right arm was blood from elbow to fingers now, yet his last desperate blow would have opened Bronn from neck to navel ... if the sellsword had stood to receive it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She made a desperate grab for the vine, but it fell in with them. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I felt myself shift forward on the bed, drawn to the pain there, desperate to reassure him that what had happened there in the snowy field hadn’t been his fault. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z My thoughts were interrupted by the man’s desperate insistence. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In the tight, desperate clench of our fingers are all the words we will never be able to say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The question flew in desperate circles around his head. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Newsome Park and the hundreds of neighborhoods like it around the country became increasingly volatile, desperate islands where housing, schooling, and every other state- supplied service were left to deteriorate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Go soak it. If the situation becomes desperate, I recommend you avail yourself of the numerous solvent formulae extant in Celum Tinture. Chapter thirteen, I believe.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They didn’t know exactly who had set the dynamite, but they were desperate to get even, to strike out at someone—anyone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that the people my dad arranged for me to live with—the Bacon family—were desperate for extra cash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Too pathetic to deal with a desperate mother. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He could have the vessel drive to land; but if it were unfriendly land, wherein he was not free to move, his position would still be desperate. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He was still penniless and desperate, and he knew that to make something of his idea was going to require years of backbreaking labor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It seems as though they’re both desperate to treat the other to dinner, but mostly this is just their way of being polite. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Trenton police received desperate requests for the poison gas antidote. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z By the time Henry and Vince returned, the crying had passed and there was only fear and, in spite of everything, a desperate wish to please Henry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s my favorite saint, patron of desperate cases. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I knew my coach and fellow teammates were desperate not to see me on the 2016 Olympic team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I didn’t like the harshness in my voice, but I was desperate to save my sisters, and the faster we got out of there, the better. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I held a desperate hope that I could cutpurse that much in time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Owner was desperate to open it, to look inside. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They were desperate to escape Riverbank, so the job offer was tempting. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There was the time, for example, when a bunch of us were desperate to go out and practise rounders during break, because we’d been challenged by a group from the year above. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The Navy was persistent because it was desperate. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Folks said they were in desperate need of stockings and food. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If you’re desperate enough to need one, it’s probably an emergency and you don’t have change. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Times are a little desperate, and we were running on fumes for a while yesterday.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z My mind wandered; I kept checking the clock, desperate to escape. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Then she was walking toward him and taking his hand and talking to him fast and desperate. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The other children tormented him, but he was so desperate for company that he put up with it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were more desperate armed men here, roaming the beach and robbing anyone carrying money or gold, even food, as they tried to escape. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Hermione Granger was on the edge of her seat and looked desperate to start proving that she wasn’t a dunderhead. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Helicopters plucked the last desperate Americans from the roof of the embassy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I pulled my feelings book from under my pillow, flipped to the current page, and downgraded from desperate to mediocre. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then—I still shudder to remember it—a desperate, pleading note crept into his voice. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Still in possession of Alice, he persuaded Carrie to let him pick up two more of her children, explaining that their father, in hiding, was desperate to see them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “You were caught in our trap, plain as day. We knew the trickster would send someone, but children? He is truly desperate.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z And then there's me, standing across from her, desperate for her approval, suffocating with the weight of the past and ridden with anxiety that reminds me I’m just not good enough. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They started appearing immediately, everywhere in New York; stapled, taped, thumbtacked all over the city, photographs and photocopies, flyers, letters, sticky notes, and desperate pleas. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I’ve been in desperate need of a new pair of shoes, but I refuse to touch any of that money. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He hadn’t noticed the injuries during the desperate fight to survive, but now he hurt all over. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Their bellies ached with hunger, and the earlier thrill of losing a few pounds before pageant time had been replaced with a terrible, desperate longing for food. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I throw the paltry offering back in their faces, again and again, until I am desperate, diving for the soggy crusts of bread they have resorted to. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z No long-ago look to take the place of the desperate glance we shared, or the hollow stare from his dark, empty eyes an instant later. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “If you’re going to tell them the story, get a move on, Remus,” snarled Black, who was still watching Scabbers’s every desperate move. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Then, after an almost desperate silence on his part, Bernabe added: “You really think it’s worth going into them mountains today?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time we reach the Capitol, we are desperate. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z With a desperate spurt Frodo and Sam dashed along the bridge; but they had hardly reached its further end when they heard the hue and cry begin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But nothing made me more desperate than looking in the mirror. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They all stared straight ahead, expressionless, but Sarai caught the desperate plea in more than a few eyes as they flowed past her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z From that day forward I lived with this double impulse: the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be acceptable. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace nodded but didn’t look convinced, and Maya threw a glance at Joaquin, desperate to have the subject changed. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z They went to her tent, where they kissed each other with a desperate anxiety while they took off their clothes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z At first when I disappeared, Dr. Luce was desperate, feeling that he had lost his greatest find. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being at home; rare was the experience of feeling myself individualized by family intimates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, she heard a desperate scramble of feet; someone screamed—was it Bennie? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Thornton’s desperate struggle was fresh-written on the earth, and Buck scented every detail of it down to the edge of a deep pool. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z They howled with pain, reaching for me, for anyone, with desperate eyes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Radio calls my teammate Stuart Hutchison had been monitoring from Rob Hall on the South Summit made clear that our leader was in desperate straits and that Doug Hansen was dead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Bucky clawed his fingers into the seat between us, letting out air in a desperate sigh. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z No matter how desperate the odds, it gave her a direction to head and a reason for going there. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I was desperate to be there when the chicks hatched. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z My living skeleton packed up in a cattle wagon with two hundred desperate others, carted off God knows where, to die of thirst before we get there? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But is it not also thus: the living man, black and desperate to run, cursed by his connection to the white, devouring ghost? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But I wouldn't visit that sonuvabitch Morrow for all the dough in the world, even if I was desperate. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z A desperate voice—someone yelling, pounding on our cabin door. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I was confused, I was desperate, I was angry; yet I lacked the courage to even face the thought of blowing up the kindergarten where Wilfred’s son attended. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The broken gutter edge loomed up, surprisingly bringing with it a desperate chance. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z "BLLLLAAARRRRGGGGH," he answers, and then sucks in a desperate wheezing breath before more pours forth. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z They knew that some refugees were so desperate to get to America that they would tell lies. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you really think you can find a place?” he asked, trying to keep a note of desperate hope out of his voice. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I must have seemed brutal and desperate to him, I had never thought of myself as being so, and now I was appalled at how I was regarded. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When he thinks about giving up, he tries to reassure himself: “I know my day will come. I know I shouldn’t get desperate.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Even the U.S. agents from the cities upstate appeared to be in no hurry for a visit; it was known that the deserters carried their arms and that they were desperate. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said the Wart, “I suppose it is some sort of war memorial, but it wifi have to do. I am sure nobody would grudge Kay a war memorial, if they knew his desperate straits.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was desperate for news and searching for answers. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z From the moment I first heard of it, I was desperate to go. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z In one Sam had found some water left, stale, muddied by the orcs, but still sufficient for their desperate case. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They were too happy to sell, and their customers were too desperate to buy. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z And those that were deepest and longest in evil servitude, hating the West, and yet were men proud and bold, in their turn now gathered themselves for a last stand of desperate battle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As the enemy marched through the occupied streets, a few desperate Loyalists fired upon them from gables, then slid down roofs on their bellies, and fled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I feel desperate, because now every time I close mv eves I see her, sitting there at the kitchen table with Evie on her lap. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands, so steady when she stirs vats of jam or braids my hair, flutter like frantic birds, desperate for me to move faster. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z His heartbeat slowed—still racing and ready for takeoff, but no longer desperate to crash through his chest. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “Fingernail marks. He was desperate to get away—to drag himself by his fingertips, if necessary. He was alive the entire time that thing sharpened its claws on the stone while its master watched.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Mark tried to push the guy away, but he was desperate and wild, climbing Mark’s body like a rope, high enough that his legs now wrapped around Mark’s head. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z By the last week of school before the holiday, he was growing desperate. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Was she so desperate to fit in with the Aberzombies that she was ignoring the fact that Evan was playing her? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Almost desperate, I asked for half a cake; she again refused. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I’ve read some myself out of pure curiosity and you can see why those officers are glad to be in Ireland after all they put up with in India and Africa and other desperate places. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Shivering in my wet clothes, I am cramped in the back on a narrow seat, next to other wet and desperate ones. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z We knew what it was like to be hungry and desperate. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Hampden had assembled a crack team which—like one of those commando forces in the movies, made up of desperate fugitives, men with freedom to gain and nothing to lose—proved virtually invincible. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I asked, kind of desperate, because I suddenly realized they had been talking for a while and I had no idea what they’d been saying. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And I do the one thing my double is unable to do, because she is not desperate enough: I fire. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “These folks are desperate. There’s no telling what they might do.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The front part of his mind is a whirl of fear, greed, and desperate thoughts of escape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He heard her calling her father's name in a desperate voice. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering, I should turn to God. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z In his desperate attempt to find a foothold, Barbarossa pushed his feet against the lion’s wings. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Still Helen stood now, desperate, prideless, before Theresa’s blank apartment door. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Captured in March 1777 after a desperate manhunt, Aitken denied his crimes, but later admitted setting the fires to a British agent posing as a friendly American. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was running next to me, out of breath, out of strength, desperate. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias reflected that he had used desperate measures to secure a promise, but with justification. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Thalia hesitated, and Luke made a desperate grab for her spear. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z If he sounded too desperate, this would all fall apart. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I pushed myself from the ground before he could even think about standing up, spreading his arms, screaming desperate, crazy screams, stepping into nothing, killing us both. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Trying to interlace, like a clutched desperate prayer, but again, I feel like the hands I am lacing are not my own, like I have borrowed them from a twelve-fingered monster. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Why was I so desperate for her friendship when she obviously didn’t value mine even a little? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It sounded like Peach, like the first sound Grace had ever heard her make, that crazily desperate wail that announced her arrival into the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z But I'm probably just making excuses, because maybe it was all about me having a crush on a girl and feeling desperate. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z All the girls head off in different directions in a desperate bid to escape the camp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a ragged red kefta and was clutching the sleeve of the guard closest to him, lips moving feverishly as if imparting some desperate wisdom. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The whole thing had a desperate, drunken tone that was not unfamiliar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z If they are like the factionless, then they are surely desperate like the factionless, and I am wary of desperate people. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Hordes of people passed by, threading through one another with desperate faces. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They climbed wildly, desperate to get out of the surge. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Those messages were a measure of how desperate things had become for us by 1100. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Tyrell's father lifts his head and finally returns his son's desperate glance. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Suddenly I feared the coming oblivion, and a desperate desire to stay awake seized me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Even farther in, the silence was broken by a cacophony of strange sounds—the skittering of rats; hissing steam; the hollow, recurring tap of pipes, like the desperate scratching of a premature burial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know the army was so desperate that they’ve lowered their requirements in intelligence as well as age.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I thought that no man in his right mind would take on Narciso’s brute strength, but Tenorio had and so he must be desperate because of what was happening to his daughter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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