Desperately Sentence Examples

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  • I've wanted desperately to talk to you!

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  • She desperately fought the steering wheel for control, but the car weaved all over the road.

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  • He desperately wanted her to bear his son.

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  • She glanced around the dimly lit room, desperately searching for a way out.

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  • With so many problems pending, I desperately needed time to think things through.

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  • He squeezed her hand, his eyes desperately trying to tell her something.

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  • They clung to each other desperately and cried.

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  • Unlatching the window, I tried desperately to raise it!

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  • She gazed into his eyes, wanting desperately to tell him to stay.

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  • She tried to brush them off, but they clung desperately to her skin.

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  • 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.

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  • She gasped, clinging desperately to the whip.

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  • Desperately trapped by need unlike anything she'd ever known, she obeyed.

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  • 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.

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  • He wanted desperately to dismiss Cynthia from consideration.

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  • Elisabeth was falling apart, and he tried desperately to wrap his head around what had happened.

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  • Her spirits did a roller coaster as she desperately watched his retreating back, and then comprehended his words.

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  • He desperately wants to eliminate what he sees as the only threat to his activities.

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  • The crowd, pushing forward desperately, squeezed together, moved a few steps, and again stopped.

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  • The duke fought desperately, but was taken ill at Savigliano and died in 1630.

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  • Rhyn slammed Tamer to the ground one last time, too incensed to notice his half-brother was trying desperately to tap out.

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  • 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.

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  • We desperately need to update Britain's crumbling transport infrastructure.

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  • I was like a fish out of water and desperately lonely.

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  • Cassandra Davis was a vampire groupie who desperately wanted to be turned.

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  • Small was desperately cute persuading BB to play with him.

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  • It was all desperately close, and 2-4 more imps in any one of 5 matches would have been enough to qualify.

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  • I desperately race around the classroom, arms flailing in clumsy attempts to grasp at adolescent screeches and high-pitched howls of derisive laughter.

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  • I desperately hoped that the cancerous tumor was not malignant.

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  • So, when you don't sleep, you find yourself starving, desperately searching your refrigerator for food.

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  • She didn't want the baby, but at least she had given it to someone who wanted it desperately.

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  • 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.

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  • Everton, wonderfully rugged and desperately unfortunate, may privately concede their chance has gone.

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  • Perhaps he had used all the vocabulary garnishing his poetry, desperately trying to scout back for some for starting a polite conversation.

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  • Parents may want to spend time with their children, or desperately crave a break from them.

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  • About 75 anti-fascists waited out the lecture and Irving, donning a disguise, tried desperately for half an hour to leave without notice.

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  • In these years the soldier emperors were desperately trying to unite the empire against the external threat.

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  • First she went to Ayr where in 2003 Beechgrove visited a housing estate that desperately needed a garden to crown their community achievements.

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  • I was desperately hungry and thirsty for knowledge and willing to endure anything to get it.

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  • I lie without moving, desperately wanting to put out a hand into the night to feel for the flashlight on my bedside locker.

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  • The large macaws desperately need the companionship of their own species.

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  • I am desperately trying to avoid bankruptcy by only buying necessities.

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  • The crowd desperately wanted an encore from the new band at their first concert.

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  • The party was the bane of her sobriety; she desperately wanted to join the drinking.

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  • At one moment, they are happily playing and the next moment it is clear that a nap is desperately needed.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Seeing celebrities without makeup just may help give today's young women the self-esteem boost they most desperately need.

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  • 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.

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  • England have had their chances to tread upon fingernails desperately clinging to the cliff top.

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  • Its pubby interior tries desperately to be authentic old school, even flogging real ales.

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  • We desperately need the right legislative framework to bring down emissions, rather than non binding targets.

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  • She had been turned out of her home in a northern town, after a quarrel with her parents, but was desperately homesick.

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  • He finds himself on a trail of danger and intrigue, desperately trying to fathom the mystery surrounding his beloved mistress, Lady Margaret.

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  • I thought it was desperately funny, and was densely unconscious that there was any moral obliquity about such a publication.

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  • It doesn't end " happy ever after " but rather with the psalmist desperately pleading for help.

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  • I have only been married four years and have just given birth for the fifth time and it has made us desperately poor financially.

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  • We in the US desperately need better data privacy protection or we will effectively not have any privacy protection or we will effectively not have any privacy at all.

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  • Kellogg once hit a shuttlecock into the crowd in disbelief and Clark yelled desperately at 1-14 in the second game.

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  • Working for garment sweatshops in Merseyside he was always desperately home sick, particularly for Vietnamese food.

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  • The people there so desperately poor, the children so undernourished it made you feel guilty to be so well fed.

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  • I think it really put the willies up EDO who must now be desperately figuring out how to stop this happening again.

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  • My improved angle made short work of the keystone and I was soon desperately shouting expletives above the now familiar sound of falling rocks.

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  • The audience is subject to a series of twanging noises as you desperately tweak the headstock.

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  • As an aside, I will tell you that I have many friends who tattooed boyfriends/girlfriends names on their skin, and are desperately trying to remove it since they are no longer together.

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  • Some will have even more fun with people who show they desperately want to be a part of the group.

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  • Talking about your concerns in a nonjudgmental way can give your loved one the strength to get the help he/she desperately needs.

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  • Having a definite plan is a proactive step to getting someone the help they desperately need.

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  • But I'm desperately reaching out to you.

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  • Close friends and family can often become frustrated and distant even though the addict desperately needs their help.

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  • I play Charlotte, an albino koala bear, who desperately wants to leave her home and head for Hollywood to become a makeup artist, or to find any kind of glamorous Hollywood job assisting the stars.

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  • Back then, Ramona desperately wanted bright red boots, instead of the brown hand-me-downs her parents gave her.

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  • Your dog desperately needs to be seen by a vet.

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  • Your stylist can show you coloring and styling options for how you can let your grey grow out, while not looking like you desperately need a touch-up!

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  • Change your medication, get the rest your body and mind so desperately needs so you can enjoy life.

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  • Global Vision 2020 has set up a way to get adjustable eyeglasses to some of those countries, and into the hands of people who desperately need them.

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  • Most football video games leave some action offscreen, forcing gamers either to ignore or to throw desperately to outside receivers that can't even be seen.

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  • There's this guy who appears to be the King of your Universe, and he desperately wants you to roll things up into giant balls.

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  • If you have a book in an auction that several buyers want desperately the price of the book may go much higher than if there was less of a demand.

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  • Ribavirin (Virazole) is used for desperately ill children to stop the growth of the virus.

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  • These products launched in stores in the late 1980s and proved to be dreams come true for people with fine hair who desperately needed some thickness added.

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  • While some styles are universally flattering for all hair types, others simply don't give thin hair the body and life it desperately needs.

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  • The FHA would also provide the funds needed to construct low-income housing, something that was desperately needed.

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  • I spent my adolescence here in Rio de Janeiro, and desperately wanted to come back as soon as possible.

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  • Many women have experienced surfacing from the water with their bikini tops up around their necks, desperately trying to get them back where they belong, while strangers, especially teenage boys, point and laugh.

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  • And yet, some women were still not quite satisfied and wished for even smaller bikinis that could give them the maximum exposure they so desperately sought.

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  • The Desperately Seeking Susan - Who can forget the black corset with men's pants look?

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  • According to Williams, drinking "green smoothies" provides his body with the blast of nutrition and energy it desperately needs to combat his health problems.

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  • Any donation will help, and your support will help ensure that the J. smith Memorial Cancer Hospital will continue to be able to provide the care these women so desperately need.

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  • With this donation, you will finance an entire day of cleanup and help us by desperately needed supplies, such as gloves and water test kits.

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  • If you're interested in knowing how to make a guy like you, chances are, you have a crush that you desperately want attention from.

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  • On the one hand, the signs associated with this element want to be treated with a certain level of importance, but they also desperately want to be treated in a very loving manner.

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  • Needless games will not go over well, but a confident and entertaining woman will provide the liveliness that Virgo men so desperately need.

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  • Without the earth, water would flow aimlessly through the world, but earth helps create boundaries and disciplines that water so desperately needs to give it form and shape.

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  • On the one hand, you have a man who is on a quest for spiritual love and desperately wants to find his soul mate.

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  • Fans were desperately worried about these three veteran characters and actors.

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  • Rafael desperately wanted Claudia to play the lead in his novela.

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  • Manuel forces her to remain with him although Antonia who also lives in the country house is desperately in love with Maneul.

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  • He eventually retreats to Mexico where Nikki and his children try desperately to reach him.

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  • She desperately wants to keep the surrogacy and her family's financial woes a secret, and the others oblige.

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  • So many singers are trying desperately to sound more sexy…more suggestive, Cassie's vocals are full of innocence, even when her words are not, and it is this that makes her stand out.

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  • You're not restricted to independent labels who are desperately looking for attention!

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  • At home, his wife is lying to him about being pregnant with his child and desperately looking to adopt a baby so that she never reveals this to him.

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  • The women on the show vary from those who are already prominent within the New York Society scene and those who are desperately attempting to climb their way up the social ladder.

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  • If you know someone who makes more fashion don'ts than fashion dos, apply for What Not to Wear and help him or her get the makeover so desperately needed.

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  • Nonetheless, the show features a full cast of women who desperately try almost anything to catch Frank's eye.

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  • Others try desperately to make an impression.

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  • This heat is so arid and dry that it instantly causes the skin to respond, leaving behind parched, desperately dehydrated skin.

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  • The teens years are a time when an individual desperately wants to fit in, and being marked by acne can create psychological scars as well as physical ones.

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  • Yancey made no move to stop her, but he met her gaze desperately.

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  • Part of her desperately tried to make excuses for Gabe.  Maybe he was fatigued or Death had done something to him.

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  • General Baldissera advanced with a large body of reinforcements to avenge this defeat, but the Abyssinians, desperately short of supplies, had already retired, and beyond the peaceful relief of Adrigat no further operations took place.

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  • I wanted desperately for him to check the bedroom but he made no mention of going upstairs.

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  • Dean knew Cynthia desperately wanted to photograph the display but both knew time was a factor if they were to visit the mine before the Dawkinses were free of their legal meetings to make the trip themselves.

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  • She closed her eyes, desperately wishing the whiskey'd take effect and knock her out.

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  • On the one hand, she's trying desperately to escape, while she's so brow-beaten and insecure she believes it's impossible!

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  • Katie couldn't help the bubble of happy laughter that escaped.  Death chuckled with her then motioned to the stairwell Toby was desperately trying to pull Katie towards.  They ran through the palace.  Katie trailed the angel until they reached a small chamber she would've mistaken as a janitor's closet on the top level.  Toby wrenched open the door and ducked into the dark room.  A portal glowed in the center.  Katie entered, overwhelmed by the thought of leaving.

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  • With almost no lines, Williams creates a broken, desperately unhappy man out of a character it would be easy to simply despise.

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  • They did so admirably and were desperately unlucky not to equalize.

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  • She was sitting bolt upright with her jaw set in a tight line, desperately trying not to laugh.

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  • The UK seems to be desperately trying to deal with two conflicting viewpoints suddenely hammered together.

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  • She desperately wanted to talk to someone, but the women warders were very strict.

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  • Within our culture we need, desperately need, small, difficult, rebarbative art forms.

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  • I did n't consciously model him on anyone, and I 'm desperately scrabbling here for comparisons.

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  • Undeterred, Josh set about clawing back their lead and literally scythed down the opposition as he desperately tried to get to the front.

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  • The bounty hunter screams as he desperately tries to swat off the bugs.

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  • On those few really sweltering hot days in summer, what you need desperately is a portable air conditioning option from Iceboys !

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  • If you're a Verizon customer and don't want to change, but desperately want to have an iPhone, you may find yourself holding your breath until at least 2010 and the end of the exclusivity contract with AT&T.

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  • After years on the run from Frank Smith, Laura desperately wanted her family to settle down.

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  • Alex is most entertaining when featured shopping for clothes with her husband because this is when it becomes blatantly obvious that she wants very desperately to be seen as a socialite.

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  • When my teens escape a similar situation, they're stuck holing up in abandoned houses and desperately looking for someone they can turn to for help.

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  • And it is interesting to observe how, e.g., St Augustine, though desperately combating the dualism of the Manichaeans, yet afterwards introduced a number of dualistic ideas into Christianity, which are distinguishable from those of Manichaeism only by a very keen eye, and even then with difficulty.

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  • The crowd, crushing one another, upsetting carts, and shouting and squeezing desperately, had cleared off the bridge and the troops were now moving forward.

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  • A'Ran desperately needed allies, food, and water for his people.

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  • Consequently Ruffo was desperately anxious to come to terms with the Republicans for the evacuation of the castles, in spite of the queen's orders to make no terms with the rebels.

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  • My heartless mind will not allow my aching body the sleep it so desperately craves and I wander this near-empty house throughout the night.

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  • During the Civil War Franklin was the scene of a minor engagement on the 10th of April 1863, and of a battle, celebrated as one of the most desperately fought of the war, which took place on the 30th of November 1864.

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  • Hotspur was slain, Worcester taken and beheaded, Douglas desperately wounded (July 23, 1403).

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  • They were quarreling and fighting desperately, each trying to snatch from the other a boot they were both holding on to.

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  • I knew he desperately wanted to pursue Howie's never-before-encountered ability as far as it would go.

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  • He desperately wanted to have this last night untainted by the truth they would face tomorrow.

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  • With them was a fourth vamp, one she wanted desperately not to see.

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  • Lannes, however, resisted desperately, and reinforced by St Hilaire's division, drove Rosenberg out.

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  • When the Seven Days' battle began Porter's corps had to sustain alone the full weight of the Confederate attack, and though defeated in the desperately fought battle of Gaines's Mill (June 27, 1862) the steadiness of his defence was so conspicuous that he was immediately promoted major-general of volunteers and brevet origadiergeneral U.S.A. His corps, moreover, had the greatest share in the successful battles of Glendale and Malvern Hill.

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  • The Othonians, though taken at a disadvantage, fought desperately, but were finally forced to fall back in disorder upon their camp at Bedriacum.

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  • The Desert Column, 1800 men, with 2880 camels in poor condition and 153 horses, found the enemy in possession of Abu Klea wells on the 16th, and was desperately attacked on the 17th.

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  • But the Indians fought desperately for their independence, and in 1553 a general rising of the tribes ended in the defeat and death of Valdivia and in the destruction of most of his settlements.

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  • But the energetic Seleucids fought desperately against their fate.

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  • His gestures were scanty, his voice was not powerful, but he was desperately in earnest, and he held his audience whether his sermon contained a picturesque and detailed description of the torments of the damned, or, as was often the case, spoke of the love and peace of God in the heart of man.

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  • He needs desperately to know what happened to his sister and what he did that turned his own mother against him.

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  • The Walachians resisted desperately, elected Radu, a kinsman of Neagoe, voivode, and succeeded with Hungarian help in defeating Mahmud Bey at Grumatz in 1522.

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  • I missed Betsy desperately and the idea of a couple of unexpected days with her was inviting, regardless of the reason.

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  • She rubbed her face, certain the mistake would be clarified soon and she'd be released with an apology the size of a bottle of painkiller she desperately needed.

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  • He wanted desperately to put his arms around her but knew he'd just exacerbate the situation.

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  • Not wanting to deal with him at all, she took the coffee out to the porch and left, even more irritated to see he wore the necklace she desperately needed to steal.

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  • But there is a limit of imperturbability, and when that limit is reached, the subsequent passion is desperately vehement.

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  • The prince, how place, which were desperately contested and with varying success.

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  • In 1862 he took a conspicuous part in the desperately fought battle of Pea Ridge, which definitely secured Missouri for the Federals.

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  • She screamed desperately and angrily and tried with her little hands to pull Pierre's hands away and to bite them with her slobbering mouth.

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  • Julie wants desperately to come back east but Howie wants to talk to Martha and learn the truth before he leaves.

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  • He desperately wanted to kiss her, but resisted, sensing the delicate balance between them.

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  • The Frank knights fought desperately, but were utterly defeated (14th of April 1205); the count of Blois was slain, and the emperor captured.

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