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Example sentences for: helpless

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

My wife thinks this is an utterly absurd way to go through life, for which I can offer no defense but a helpless shrug.
Like any other endeavor where helpless animals are placed at a disadvantage (in this case, they spin the pheasants first to make them dizzy) in order to provide adorable little children with the joy of inflicting pain and causing death.
But they're also acutely helpless, with skin that's much too touchy and toes that aren't so clever.
The bigger problem is on the "push" side, and there the filters are helpless.
There has been a great deal of cant in the past 30 years to the effect that Dior's era forced helpless women into a posture of submission with its fussily constructed garments, cumbersome skirts, cinched waists, and rigid hairstyles, crippling their feet in high heels and imprisoning their hands in white gloves.