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Example sentences for: powerlessness

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

Next to that story was an editorial titled "American Powerlessness."
It did work for Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry, a self-professed sex addict who rehabilitated himself politically after a drug conviction by declaring his powerlessness over drugs and sex, repenting, and entering a program.
She can't share his work or know his daily (sometimes weekly) whereabouts, and you can see how the powerlessness eats at her.
But even if you do not understand the preceding, you probably feel the tension between words conveying force, strength, and menace, such as power users, abort, dump, head crash , and munged , with words suggesting vulnerability, frailty, and humor as a defense against such powerlessness, in words like technoweenie, nerdettes, user-friendly , and DWIM (for do what I mean, a mythological key that would make the computer do what you cannot figure out yourself).
Nelson's response to powerlessness was architectural: He transformed part of the fusty old family precincts into a sleek "Bauhaus fantasyland" for himself and his brothers.