1.   For those in desperate straits the line between superstition and saving faith is finely drawn.

2.   In desperate straits and full of misgivings, I Decide to seek therapy.

3.   Without papal assistance, crown finances would have been in even more desperate straits than in fact they were.

4.   Her campaign is in desperate straits.

5.   The company is in desperate financial straits.

6.   But everyone understood that even if the Red Sox had yet to enter desperate straits, the time clearly had come for a desperate measure.

7.   Cook liked the shallow draft, enabling the ship to slide onto a beach for repairs if in desperate straits.

8.   Desperate straits will do that to a man.

9.   Each put its author in desperate straits.

10.   Few books help show why anyone would be in such desperate straits that they would try to kill themselves.