Example sentences for: helplessly

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

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

  • Also, using Commerce to promote U.S. business abroad has shielded Clinton against critics on the left who say he's helplessly infatuated with free trade.

  • Now that Clinton stands accused of rape, they sit helplessly mute.

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

  • Inspired to despair helplessly: That has been my ongoing reaction to the Peter Singer piece in the Times magazine the week before last, an article to which John Tierney refers in his column in today's Times as well.


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