Example sentences for: hapless

How can you use “hapless” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If we are talking about Finns attempting to learn Turkish or Korean then no one, surely, is going to argue that point, except to make the observation, perhaps, that such hapless Finns are going to have to operate via an interlingua (and its dictionaries), such as English, German, or Russian.

  • Seemingly terrorized by her hooting-mad, derelict father (Robert Duvall, in a hilarious cameo), Doss doffs her duds at the first opportunity and promptly has the hapless attorney on a very tight retainer.

  • Something tells me those hapless Vietnam skulls deserve a better resting place than File Cabinet 24.

  • With the formula programmed into only their calculators, they could have ruled the emerging Chicago Board of Options Exchange, taking the money of the hapless traders who were still pricing based on history, rules of thumb, or their guts (a potentially substantial source of wisdom here in Chicago).

  • Like one of her hapless boyfriends, I'd been left without so much as a forwarding address.


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