adverb
definition
In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly.
definition
Extremely
Examples of desperately in a Sentence
I've wanted desperately to talk to you!
She desperately fought the steering wheel for control, but the car weaved all over the road.
He desperately wanted her to bear his son.
She glanced around the dimly lit room, desperately searching for a way out.
With so many problems pending, I desperately needed time to think things through.
He squeezed her hand, his eyes desperately trying to tell her something.
They clung to each other desperately and cried.
Unlatching the window, I tried desperately to raise it!
She gazed into his eyes, wanting desperately to tell him to stay.
She tried to brush them off, but they clung desperately to her skin.
She gasped, clinging desperately to the whip.
Desperately trapped by need unlike anything she'd ever known, she obeyed.
Her feet skidded out from under her and she spun around, clutching desperately to the limb, twisting into a sitting position and sliding until she was sitting before him.
At that point Jonathan came into the kitchen with Matthew holding on to one hand and Natalie clinging desperately to the hand on his short arm.
He wanted desperately to dismiss Cynthia from consideration.
Elisabeth was falling apart, and he tried desperately to wrap his head around what had happened.
He desperately wants to eliminate what he sees as the only threat to his activities.
The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few steps, and again stopped.
Her spirits did a roller coaster as she desperately watched his retreating back, and then comprehended his words.
The duke fought desperately, but was taken ill at Savigliano and died in 1630.
Rhyn slammed Tamer to the ground one last time, too incensed to notice his half-brother was trying desperately to tap out.
She smiled, honored he'd listen to a message that went against every part of who he was while desperately wishing she could be more assured about the outcomes she Saw.
I was like a fish out of water and desperately lonely.
We desperately need to update Britain's crumbling transport infrastructure.
So, when you don't sleep, you find yourself starving, desperately searching your refrigerator for food.
Cassandra Davis was a vampire groupie who desperately wanted to be turned.
Small was desperately cute persuading BB to play with him.
I was desperately hungry and thirsty for knowledge and willing to endure anything to get it.
It was all desperately close, and 2-4 more imps in any one of 5 matches would have been enough to qualify.
I desperately race around the classroom, arms flailing in clumsy attempts to grasp at adolescent screeches and high-pitched howls of derisive laughter.
I lie without moving, desperately wanting to put out a hand into the night to feel for the flashlight on my bedside locker.
I desperately hoped that the cancerous tumor was not malignant.
She didn't want the baby, but at least she had given it to someone who wanted it desperately.
Although he could influence them to willingly let him feed by merely making eye contact, he preferred to seduce his conquests to want him as desperately as he craved their blood.
Everton, wonderfully rugged and desperately unfortunate, may privately concede their chance has gone.
Perhaps he had used all the vocabulary garnishing his poetry, desperately trying to scout back for some for starting a polite conversation.
Parents may want to spend time with their children, or desperately crave a break from them.
About 75 anti-fascists waited out the lecture and Irving, donning a disguise, tried desperately for half an hour to leave without notice.
In these years the soldier emperors were desperately trying to unite the empire against the external threat.
First she went to Ayr where in 2003 Beechgrove visited a housing estate that desperately needed a garden to crown their community achievements.
The large macaws desperately need the companionship of their own species.
I am desperately trying to avoid bankruptcy by only buying necessities.
The crowd desperately wanted an encore from the new band at their first concert.
The party was the bane of her sobriety; she desperately wanted to join the drinking.
At one moment, they are happily playing and the next moment it is clear that a nap is desperately needed.
I'm not a vet, but it does raise questions that the tapping was suggested by the vet, consented to by you and never carried out over two and a half hours on a desperately ill patient.
Whether you're a parent, educator or program organizer who desperately needs free or reduced-cost books for children, there are resources out there to help.
Seeing celebrities without makeup just may help give today's young women the self-esteem boost they most desperately need.
Soon you will have a new and fun way to kill time on the net -- and perhaps a temporary substitute for the real dog that you so desperately want.
Fans were desperately worried about these three veteran characters and actors.