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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.
The more colorful cases involve the infliction of torments on helpless patients that would excite the envy of Pol Pot.
He's incredibly smart and telegenic--it's always fun to watch him spar on TV, even if I disagree with him--but he's shown himself to be a helpless captive of another era, a two-prong outlet in a world of three-prong plugs.
In expiating its guilt over past failures, the West has instead sacrificed the lives of the helpless civilians of Kosovo.