Example sentences for: helpless

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

  • The image of Microsoft as a crippled and helpless giant is increasingly penetrating the mainstream media.

  • Bale, a wonderfully sensitive actor who here looks like Watson with an Adam's apple, can only stare open-mouthed, helpless, knowing she's his destiny and not even much minding that it will take him back to Metroland.

  • But young Americans aren't as helpless in the face of the tobacco-industry juggernaut as the Clintonites would like to imagine: Black teen-agers are already hitting the president's goals.

  • Newsweek looks at how children deal with death: "A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates."

  • Knowing that any of the four possibilities would considerably narrow the range of suggestion in the original, but helpless, they settled for L'Invaincu .


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