desperate search

collocation in English

meaningsofdesperateandsearch

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desperate
adjective
uk
/ˈdes.pər.ət/us
/ˈdes.pɚ.ət/
very serious ...
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search
noun
uk
/sɜːtʃ/us
/sɝːtʃ/
an attempt to find someone ...
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(Definition ofdesperateandsearchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdesperate search

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All of these movements were manifestations of adesperatesearchfor something to believe in.
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There is adesperatesearchon just now.
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They are a party indesperatesearchof a policy.
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In hisdesperatesearchhe has come forward with the new training initiative.
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They have not taken the accommodation on in adesperatesearchfor somewhere to live.
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The whiff of corruption and thedesperatesearchfor multimillionaire donors remain.
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They are destroying what works in theirdesperatesearchfor a spurious novelty.
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The paragraph on finance bears all the hallmarks of an almostdesperatesearchfor ideas.
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Thedesperatesearchfor a director then took place.
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The film follows thedesperatesearchfor the saboteur.
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In this year there has been a complete change of climate from adesperatesearchfor coal at any price.
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Increasingly, there has been adesperatesearchby the military for ways to continue to make its deterrent more credible.
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In those cases there is adesperatesearchfor the kind of accommodation that the family must have.
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The rest of the speeches from the benches opposite have been in the form of adesperatesearchfor gloom at any price.
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When his son becomes dangerously ill, he sets off alone in adesperatesearchfor water.
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She's an orphan in adesperatesearchfor a permanent home.
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Much of the environmental degradation is the result of thedesperatesearchby the poor and the landless for such basic needs as fuel, food and water.
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We agree, of course, with these objectives, but we have to point out that, at times, adesperatesearch for improvements can end up being counterproductive.
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There is adesperatesearchfor world markets and national markets, in order that the industry may be able to keep itself afloat by dint of desperate measures.
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He's sentenced to prison but escapes and begins adesperatesearchto find the man who sold him the horses.
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Contacting the other parents, they go on adesperatesearchto find their missing children and put it into context.
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Their life became a ratherdesperatesearchfor pastimes or a gloomy contemplation of their own help- lessness, which, at its worst, was little better than waiting to die.
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In subsequent sections the substantive facts are replaced by a more intimate,desperatesearchfor meaning and escape from criminal sanction and permanent addiction.
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Residents of the area and visitors have claimed that they have seen the couple wander the island in theirdesperatesearchto be rescued.
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Capable of moving and eating on land, they are forced to leave the now barren lake in adesperatesearchfor food - animal, vegetable or human.
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