How to use "desperate" in a sentence

Before entering upon so grave a matter as the destruction of our national fabric, with all its benefits, its memories, and its hopes, would it not be wise to ascertain precisely why we do it? Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from - will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake?

The man looked around, desperate for somewhere to spend the night

Fantine felt desperate; she did not know how to obtain such a large sum of money

I remember Catherine's face, but she is not smiling like she is in the picture, and her blue eyes look scared and desperate

She was desperate to let him know the exciting news

Danny's cries and her response became increasingly shrill and desperate, for they knew that they must reach each other before nightfall or be lost forever; in the oncoming night, something waited for Danny, something fearsome that would seize him if he was alone after dark

"In the middle of dinner, I might be seized by a desperate need to dash over here and act like a producer."

He was desperate to get out, and she was frantic to rescue him; but he was chained, unable to climb, and the sides of the pit were sheer and smooth, so she had no way to reach him

Most of the story dealt with Death's attempts to stop the mother and father on their desperate night journey; they were assaulted by every form of the walking dead, every manner of living corpse and vampire and ghoul and zombie and ghost, but they triumphed

He held on with a fierce, desperate strength.

A year later, Tina has reason to believe the accident did not occur as reported - that her son is alive, is being held against his will, and is in desperate need of her

Instead, I was looking at a quick-breathing, desperate creature

A number of people now, like my brother, were moving to the east, and some were even so desperate that they turned back towards London to get food

I hesitated, then with a rush of desperate courage, and with my heart beating violently, I climbed to the top of the pile of earth in which I had been buried.