Example sentences for: powerless

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

  • TNR 's late hit on Robert Reich's self-serving memoir points out how powerless cabinet secretaries are.

  • She is the mother of the mestizo race, La Raza (The People), and a political symbol for the oppressed and powerless.

  • We may have to go on strike before AutoSummarize can be perfected, and we become powerless.

  • McCourt "seems less in control in this book and at times is powerless to keep himself from becoming the stage Irishman, crying in his beer, milking sentiment until it becomes false" (Peter Collier, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)

  • Reich's liberal vision--a leaner but more activist government--was abandoned by the president who promised to implement it, leaving Reich frustrated and powerless.


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