Example sentences for: hopelessly

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

  • As Charles Isherwood writes in Variety , "nothing fades more quickly than fabulousness"; the name-dropping glitter of the novel seems hopelessly old hat in the '90s.

  • 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.

  • The cover story says the Republican Party is hopelessly divided by a disagreement over the correct size for government.

  • The scenarios: Bush could lose his temper, be skewered by Forbes-sponsored ads, remain hopelessly fuzzy on the issues, be resented for his vast campaign (and inherited) resources, get cocky, fall apart in an early primary, or be felled by a scandalous skeleton rattling in his closet.

  • Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) are outnumbered by the detractors ("hopelessly overwrought and deeply dopey," Richard Schickel, Time ), who say 1) it's not remotely scary; 2) the sarcasm and self-conscious irony grow tiresome; 3) it's permeated with anti-Arab racism; and 4) the mummy isn't a real mummy, he's "a mutating Industrial Light and Magic Special Effect" (David Edelstein,


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