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How to use Helpless in a sentence

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A person, a society and a country which is weak and helpless has no choice but to resort to violence.
He feels helpless and powerless to do anything to change things for the better.
And all she could do was sit and feel quite helpless, wishing she was at Anna's side to comfort her and hold her hand.
This time Hamilton ran through a statuesque Town defence to side-foot the ball past a helpless O'Hare.
Why do we decide it is none of our business or that we are helpless to do anything about it?
The genetic uniformity among Cavendish bananas has made them helpless to fight Black Sigatoka.
It would be easier to deal with Ms Rice as a helpless victim oppressed by a bunch of white bigots.
We want to be the capable authors of our work, not helpless victims of unplanned circumstance.
The ordeal of being mugged is scary enough without being left to feel as though you're on your own and helpless.
As Brant plodded behind his subjugator, he could hardly think of a time when he had felt this helpless.
Requesting the state to protect women appears to declare women helpless victims.
This was a cowardly, savage and vicious attack on a man who was utterly helpless.
Jesus is coming this time not as a helpless baby in a manger, not as a man of sorrows, but as victor and conqueror to claim his own.
This new wave of bloodlust, it occurred to me, is more a result of feeling helpless, than of anything rational or reasonable.
Unable to remain helpless victims any longer, the residents have taken up the step.
I was sitting in bed, unarmed and helpless staring at a shadow that was going to kill me.
It's the stereotype of the helpless girl in the water who wakes up to find a lifeguard giving her mouth-to-mouth, like Prince Charming.
Avis reported seeing a local resident standing in waist-deep water, helpless as her furniture floated down the road.
It was desperate and helpless and came from somewhere deep inside her in huge loud sobs that racked her entire body and soul.
The helpless ship accelerated for a few moments and then began to slow down, eventually coming to a standstill.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Helpless and hopeless it is drawn ashore, upturning, in the act of submission, its starred and gleamy flanks.
It was a helpless, puling, tender thing, demanding his sympathy and his love.
Without the Chinese cooly, the tobacco planter is helpless, and if the proper season is allowed to pass, a whole year may be lost.
You talk of my afflicting the child, and then make a helpless guy like that of her!
Seemed to think that because a fellow had been pipped once he was helpless for evermore.
The little yacht was in the water now, still helpless because of her furled sails.
But this association proved so helpless that it could not even hinder the invasion of Gallicism in the eighteenth century.
She climbed in a helpless way into the gig, and sat waiting for her husband.
The pale, helpless soldiers had been debark'd, and lay around on the wharf and neighborhood anywhere.
Although the Republicans were in a helpless minority they were glad to have an organ, and the declarator did fairly well.
Some helpless thing in him wanted her and she was killing it cruelly and senselessly.
A demoralized, woe-begone, wilted, helpless figure was before me in the hall.
A leader who could not communicate with his forces and coordinate their actions would be helpless.
But she could not get her mother's feeling of him as a helpless, dependent thing.
We were both too young, too dependent and helpless, to do anything but accept our separation.
He saw that he was outwitted, that he was helpless, that he was even in personal danger.
Even the helpless indolence of Sidon had been surprised into activity and change.
The President was helpless, and mistrustful of his officers, and the officers were caballing against the President.
Running over a floating log might disable our propeller, and we should be helpless then.
Like many others of the scale bugs, the cochineal males have wings and are not so scalelike as their helpless mates.
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