Example sentences for: hapless

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

  • Tank Abbott, an ill-tempered, 270-pound street fighter, knocks out hapless opponent John Matua in 15 seconds.

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

  • After the English annihilated the hapless French (10,000 dead French to a mere 29 Brits, by Bill S.'s count), the English responded by waving their two fingers back at the French in the now-familiar gesture (the American version limits it to the single middle finger).

  • Retailers seem to turn round wholesale on their hapless customers with outrageous demands.

  • Shakespeare, at a remove of four centuries, provides a hapless hunting ground for nice misinterpretations, either through misquotation or quoting out of context.


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