Meanings of try desperately in English

I try desperately to look on the bright side of the virus.

I try desperately to make sense of an elusive fragment of memory.

At the Hawks, Roughead will try desperately to seek form in the VFL.

I try desperately to hide how hard it is for me to breathe.

Which is good, since I hate conflict and try desperately to avoid it.

I would try desperately to scream and fight it off, but I was absolutely powerless.

I try desperately to grab on to one thing and hold it, and make it work.

All he could do was crouch down, crawl among the rubble, and try desperately to hide.

Blinking into the sunlight, I try desperately to piece together what I saw, but nothing comes.

Now I want to try desperately hard to avoid a personal attack on poor old Tim.

We try desperately to make him laugh.

As I slip off my shoes to trek across the padded floor, I try desperately to remember their names.

Throw away every other consideration, and try , try desperately, to be of the little company of those who escape!

Purpose also being to isolate myself with my thoughts, to try desperately to come up with some way through, anything.

Nicholls' wafer-thin screenplay eventually beats down both Hathaway and Sturgess, who try desperately to give this couple something approximating depth.

I try desperately to focus my anger on everyone else and not on the old woman sitting next to me.