1.   A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters.

2.   By the closing rounds he was reduced to throwing wild haymakers in a desperate attempt to stem the tide.

3.   Doctors made a desperate attempt to save his life.

4.   He made two desperate attempts to recoup by staging the kind of garish spectacle that had once lured customers to the Falls.

5.   Joy made one last desperate attempt and produced the most horrendous squeak ever, like a hare caught by a harvest scythe.

6.   Sadly, drugs used in a desperate attempt to save his life made most of his organs unusable.

7.   She made a desperate attempt to move.