Sqlite query to get search word with adjacent words too

I wants to get adjacent words too from a query including the searched word, is it possible to get? or should I go with any other way?

eg., For the below sentence (description column in database table, column name is DESC)

"One of the most popular methods".

select DESC from TABLE_NAME where DESC like 'popular';

Here I want two adjacent words also "most" and "methods". from above text.

I have try to check with REGEXP but not working like

@"SELECT Desc FROM tablename WHERE LineText REGEXP '(^| )popular( |$)'"

Can we get those with query or with other regular expression?

Please suggest. Thanks.