Example sentences for: helplessly

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

  • South Park is a reminder of the great moments from the old Henry Beard/Doug Kenny National Lampoon , where the audacity and smarts still leave you tearing up helplessly when you try to explain what you love about the work months later.

  • President Clinton has spent $10 million on legal fees; has been forced to answer repellent, invasive questions under oath; has had every private embarrassment announced to the world in the guise of "court documents"; and has watched helplessly as his closest friends and aides have been barbecued and bankrupted by hostile lawyers.

  • And it so permeates public discourse that even the opposition helplessly or unwittingly succumbs.

  • One of the women, a counselor for "post-abortion trauma," told how she had become pregnant at 20, helplessly felt she had no alternative but abortion, "and for 15 years ...

  • (When he stands helplessly in the rain at the end, the deluge completes him.)


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