How To Use desperate straits In A Sentence
- Just before the late summer sunburst farmers were in desperate straits because so little of their arable crop had been harvested, and huge losses were expected.
- He has spent the past two years using digital technology to bring together people in desperate straits, getting things done while others were pontificating.
- In particular, aid to state governments, which are in desperate straits, is both fast — because it prevents spending cuts rather than having to start up new projects — and effective, because it would in fact be spent; plus state and local governments are cutting back on essentials, so the social value of this spending would be high. Matthew Yglesias » Krugman: Centrists Eliminated 600,000 Worth of Jobs From Stimulus Package
- When Japan was in equally desperate straits in 1944, using the word kamikaze for the suicide pilots was not for nothing. Japan's Shattered Mirror
- Just before the late summer sunburst farmers were in desperate straits because so little of their arable crop had been harvested, and huge losses were expected.
- In desperate straits, Nancy senses an opportunity to play on the gratitude of the college and so she and Jake travel to England to inveigle themselves into St Maud's.
- Nobody knows how many more cases will be identified, although Gruer knows they will continue to see people in desperate straits.
- Now we know that everyone was in desperate straits down there.
- Many find themselves in desperate straits as the price they get for their products continues to slump.
