Example sentences for: hopelessly

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

  • The Banquet Honey-Roasted Turkey Meal offered literally a single slice of cold-cut-style turkey--about one-eighth of an inch thick--on a sparse bed of hopelessly damp and chewy stuffing.

  • Of course, the buggy whip is rare enough today to be a byword for anything hopelessly outmoded -- the buggy-whip industry being singled out with a particular chuckle -- and horse-and-buggy days has become the byword for a whole lost era.

  • In one of those glitches we've come to expect from Microsoft sites, the two chat sessions got hopelessly jumbled.

  • Some critics continue to deride his mammoth tomes as hopelessly pedestrian, with "the formulaic plots and the formulaic prose and the formulaic leap to the top of the best-seller list" (the New York Times ). Most critics grudgingly praise Michener's prolificacy, breezy prose, and extensive research, while gleefully bashing the snobbery of his highbrow bashers.

  • Cast as an indomitable woman who endures hellish training with an all-male Navy squadron, Moore "becomes perversely spectacular" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and transcends the movie's "banal premises and predictable conclusion" (Richard Schickel, Time ). But some critics find the fascination of director Ridley Scott ( Alien , Thelma & Louise ) with Moore's suffering hopelessly sadistic.


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