Example sentences for: hapless

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

  • Cats only vaguely cry meow (James Joyce bravely tried mkgnao ), hapless pigs have the choice of only oink or ooee , horses bray neigh and mules hee-haw .

  • An adulatory feature about Woody Allen marvels at his hard work and resilience, gives his side of the Soon-Yi story (her "presence is a reminder of life's bounty"), and hypes his "radiant" new movie, Everyone Says I Love You . His hapless schlub persona is revealed to be mere persona: He's actually full of confidence.

  • The real news in this ranking is: the success of Busch ; the embarrassment of Heineken and Miller Genuine Draft , an expensive and a medium beer, respectively, which share the cellar with the hapless Grolsch ; and the nearly Busch-like value of Milwaukee's Best and Schmidt's . It is safe to say that none of our testers would have confessed respect for Busch, Milwaukee's Best, or Schmidt's before the contest began.

  • You might call that "rain," but we don't . It provokes a mixture of sadism and sympathy from reporters, who proceed to turn the hapless flack into a human punching bag.

  • For that matter, those hapless aliens can't stay ahead of the doughty X-Files team without a conspiratorial collaboration with that least effective of all entities, the U.S. government.


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