They are families, described as the "working poor," desperately hanging on to their threadbare lodgings.

The faerie slid into a corner, still desperately hanging onto its wand.

As the earth lurched, she slipped, desperately hanging on.

Jake figured Alison would hang desperately to the Japanese girl and that would help.

She was spread-eagled across the hole, hanging desperately on by precarious white-knuckled hands.

Not yet," Pat cried, desperately hanging onto his arm.

Ben thrust the open furnace door shut, hanging onto it desperately at the last until he eased it to.

She hung desperately to the curled metal edge to keep from falling.

The reason for this is that North Korea is a dictatorship desperately hanging on to power.

A naked girl hanging desperately on to a buoy as the giant fish tore its way through her lower extremities.