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.