Example sentences for: helpless

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

  • Their daughter, adorable little Alice, announces that she'd like to visit a refugee camp and minister to poor, helpless wounded people.

  • The bigger problem is on the "push" side, and there the filters are helpless.

  • That evening, at the Bromells' apartment, after She had been carried up through the rational structureBy articulate stages, floor after flashing floor,And after we helped her get across the hall,And get across the room to a chair, somehowWe got her seated in a chair that was placedA little too far away from the nearest table,At the edge of the abyss, and there she sat,Exposed, her body the object of our attention--The heaviness of it, the helpless graceless leg,The thick stocking, the leg brace, the medical shoe.

  • Feckless —“spiritless, helpless, futile”—is given in all my desk dictionaries, but only Chambers has feck (nice to see a lost positive found), which comes from effect through vowel-loss and is defined as “efficacy” or “quality.”

  • The helpless baby sitter seems caught in Murphy's Law Hell: Everything is going wrong.


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