Example sentences for: helpless

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

  • Merkin doubts Bloom's claim that she was helpless: "One can discern, through the pious gloss Bloom puts on the events of her life, the shrewd maneuverings of a stage brat."

  • In expiating its guilt over past failures, the West has instead sacrificed the lives of the helpless civilians of Kosovo.

  • The more colorful cases involve the infliction of torments on helpless patients that would excite the envy of Pol Pot.

  • Alas, the kind of bystander you are is helpless because people in these relationships have blinders on and defenses in place.

  • I feel helpless, and I worry for her.


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