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Sentence Examples The hapless Sailor briefly stopped the onslaught when he scored three minutes later, but to no avail. One hapless tourist was bitten by a tiger shark while swimming with dolphins out in deep water. And these hapless people whose gaiety at first had been so peaceful, at length belaboured each other soundly. The money they control comes out of their own pockets, not from the rich coffers of a corporate treasury or from hapless public investors. Tender and gallant, you've rescued these hapless insects from all sorts of scrapes and misadventures. Campaigns have become the political equivalent of World War I trench warfare, with the hapless voters trapped in no man's land. Nothing untoward, though one hapless guest mistook the cart path across the golf course for the exit drive. This is largely because dance mix albums have come to be seen as yet another means for DJs to squeeze cash out of hapless clubbers. A motley crew of hapless musicians and street performers are seen trying to cheer up citizens in what appears to be a breadline. He is like the hapless pedestrian about to turn unawares face first into an expertly placed custard pie. Stanley's two-goal cushion was eventually restored on 27 minutes when Craney's 25-yard drive bobbled under the hapless Lavin. Ten years of hapless fixes by Littlechild and his successor have failed to stem the tide of rip-offs at the heart of this unfixable system. Beneath this curmudgeonly exterior lurks the soft heart and even softer head of a hapless romantic. It features Milo, a glorious Newfoundland dog, cradling another hapless victim of the turbulent waters off New England's Egg Rock lighthouse. It is a place of prostitution and opium, and a home to the many hapless children orphaned by the double standards of Victorian society. The present actions of the hapless Joe Punter are good reasons to be bullish on shares. Finally there is the wonderfully irascible Jody who sits spikily in judgement on her hapless friends. If I'm not mistaken, the hapless home side need to score five goals without reply to win. Absent ministers phone in from Tuscan hillsides as some hapless stay-at-home is left to carry the can. A few will have headliner status thrust upon them, as has happened with the hapless Aaron Barschak. Show More Sentences Such marriages do not last longer than a year and then the hapless girls return with a child. How much compensation was offered to the poor hapless farmers is not a state secret. The hapless travellers have to part with at least two to three rupees more for want of change. It is not merely hapless tourists that are suffering in this unstable climate. Jeffrey is pretty hapless, and a very funny spoof of an irritating circuit queen. What about his grotesque decision to psychoanalyse his own daughter, the hapless Anna? He would then regale his hapless customers with stories of his own daring deeds. Remember what Antoine de Boursin did to the hapless employees at Bunsen Burners International? To be fair to the hapless reporter, I think he was rather embarrassed about this assignment. After all, failure to do so could leave them as hapless bystanders in a game of musical chairs which may be nearing its climax. Then when we got there a swarm of locust like marketeers engulfed our hapless family. This is the kind of inspired initiative that might have saved hapless Henry but what flag would he have proposed we wave? It's unfair to blame the hapless candidate, of course, for her party's shortcomings. Some went as far as singing besura love songs outside the hapless girl's house. I pitied the hapless patient and commiserated with the unhappy house officer, unsettled by the echoes of my own mistakes. For the professor, taking care of these hapless children has remained a life long passion. On the shop floor it more or less meant the proles getting their cards and hapless, toadying management promoted beyond their competence. The camera is now a portal through which we may spy cautiously on his hapless world of emotionally isolated human beings. London routed hapless Halifax to record their third successive Super League home win. I had quite a bit more sympathy for Brendan, the hapless teenaged supermarket checker, than did the author of the book. Show More Sentences It is a stirring, brutal tale of conspiracy and intrigue, treachery and dissent, the overthrow of a hapless leader named Duncan. With one arm out, the hapless soldier was quickly disarmed, then dispatched by a chop across his neck as he turned to run. Thanks to a summer that threatens to get more scorching with each passing day, the hapless Bangalorean doesn't have any other choice. The only condition is that the hapless Alfred must pay dearly for rejecting her many years before. It's the tale of Malcolm, an art school drop out who persuades his hapless friends to join his cockeyed crusade against the system. We checked out a favorite old movie starring a bunch of hapless cockneys trying to nick some gold in Italy. The supporting cast could include a sympathetic bartender, a hapless purser, a coked up cruise director, and a comically lecherous ship's doctor. First a formidable cartel makes a tight combine and launches an advertisement blitz against the hapless rivals. All the while, a hapless Maggie sits in the drivers' seat, helpless to stop the incorrigible bug from exercising its mighty will. The hapless bird fluttered and flapped around the astonished patrons whilst desperately trying to gain its freedom. Every chance they got, a hapless player would dribble into the invisible fog bank, only to come out gagging and staring at Rob. I do not believe they're there on a fool's errand nor do I consider them to be hapless dupes and slaves to a cause not worth fighting. Preliminary analysis suggests the frigidarium remained in use until its roof collapsed on a hapless bather. Popovic deflected the ball on, and it rolled to Routledge whose powerful low shot deflected off the hapless Jason Shackell into the net. Does he think that only hapless and gullible proles sign up for the Marines? A pulpit has never been so expensive for either the pulpiteer nor his hapless congregation. After that the abuse rained down continually upon the hapless Mr O'Brien, like rocks and pumice from a spluttering volcano. In comedic fashion, the dos and don'ts of winning and keeping a man are detailed to assist the hapless female in finding Mr. Right. Grabbing and groping commenced as the women began divesting the hapless men of their cumbersome armor and battle dress. The floor, walls, and any hapless machine that happened to be nearby erupted into fire and smoke. Show More Sentences When she learns that he has been secretly having an affair with the tutor she joins her in attempting to oust the hapless dominie. That lesson was drilled into the hapless Galway champions yesterday by a supremely drilled Birr side. Khan was in irrepressible form from the start, raining in fast and accurate punches from every angle, to leave the hapless Korean stunned. It was impossible to judge the Germans on their walloping of hapless Saudi Arabia. That is also when the omnipresent stray dogs are more interested in their siesta than in chasing hapless wayfarers. The so-called street vendors we see are not as economically hapless as we are meant to believe. Doing so will take a load off your feet, and prevent your brain from becoming clogged, cluttered or crashing like your hapless personal computer. Yet it is difficult not to continue reading, and impossible not to shudder, at the indignities inflicted on the hapless Yanomami. I read all the time about some hapless evil hot boy getting his and I would've paid good money to see that, you bet. The Old Man, as he is known, would not want to be seen as the hapless prisoner of his own empty rhetoric. But England will take what they can from a 12-try romp against the hapless Canadians. In the fall, he dominated as a wide receiver on the football team, grabbing lobs over hapless defenders in the corner of the end zone. Stillborn epigrams, mechanistic wordplay, and numbing longueurs feel like hapless actors' improvisations. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star as two hapless criminals who embark on a land rush on the western frontier. One of the essential skills is identifying the difference between a potential threat, and a hapless scallywag. Yukie Fujimoto, a mysterious woman in scarlet, points her index finger at the hapless hero. It was scavenging for food, eating any hapless tiny creatures it came upon. The temptresses then coerce the hapless chaps into making complete fools of themselves. And don't get me started on the hapless server who warms up my cup for me with more tepid water. Before him, towering from Murphy's vantage point, stood a hapless young man clad head to toe in coffee-stained thrift-store seersucker. Show More Sentences Burley-In-Wharfedale opening bat Chris Wheeler smashed his way to 170 against the hapless bowlers of Bardsey last week. Perhaps Putin will continue where the hapless but well-intentioned medvedev left off. Kids are cautioned not to touch a mangy dog for fear that the mange will ooze from the hapless pooch to the child and cause his skin to rot and his hair to fall out. Likewise, the insight that the schlemiels that populate his fiction are hapless because they unwisely separate themselves from the community is a fine one. Speer is no hapless victim caught in sadistic forces beyond his control. But Silva, hapless Silva, got his merely for tangling with the Colombian goalkeeper in a clumsy melee of limbs. The hapless circus clown whose act opened the show soon had Weston and Caroline in stitches. So while he comes out looking like the hapless victim of wilful misinterpretation, Carol is portrayed as mentally fragile and misguided, if not downright crazy. Any horrible things that happen to these hapless characters are my fault! Actually, the novelty has long worn off and, like most of us hapless e-mailers, I too have to grin and bear it when I find my mailboxes clogged with junk mails. Their physicality seems further diminished by the glass vitrines within which they dangle, boxes that lend them a disturbingly contradictory sense of hapless menace. In the middle of all these bureaucratic doings, the hapless bus commuters suddenly find themselves shelterless from the elements during their wait for the erratic city buses. His comic timing is polished up to split-second accuracy for the role of Elliot Richards, the hapless computer nerd that nobody wants to hang out with. For years I used to hate reading the rantings of newspaper columnists as they pounded some hapless individual before moving on glibly to the next victim. Needless to say he came of worse and, in fact, nobody else was injured apart from the hapless chap who was quickly dispatched to the afterlife in a hail of well-aimed bullets. But his infamy was sealed by the government's all-out campaign against his hapless sidekicks, falsely portrayed as part of a vast Confederate plot. And yes, we got ourselves kidnapped by a bunch of off-duty and retired soldiers who were enjoying a Friday beating up hapless journalists far too much. In the e-mail, I thought to myself, I would explicate my apparent teenage gawkiness from the previous day as the consequence of being mortifyingly embarrassed and hapless. A handful of hapless punters are dragged up and the whole thing descends into a sort of free-form hoedown, complete with catcalls and wolf whistles. I'm weary of his monotone droning as he reads yet another story of yet another hapless, submissive male being dominated by yet another psychotic nympho. Show More Sentences Do you call an ineffectual, hapless person a schlemiel, a shlemel, a shlemyel, or a schlemeyel? Jonathan Groff turns a hapless mountaineer who talks to his pet reindeer into a swashbuckling Prince Charming. Frankly, what the hapless visitors to the gallery are now being presented with is a farrago of contextless quotes, statements of belief and reports of misleading hearsay. The signal lights blinking only amber meant that one hapless policeman made a valiant effort to control traffic which seemed to swamp him from all directions. Their children are deep-fried, drug-soaked numbskulls, the adults hapless lemmings in their SUVs, heading straight into the back-end of the American dream. The owner scooted over from doing his genial rounds of the table and scooped up the hapless moggy, depositing him safely but unceremoniously on the street outside. Romney got the blame for trying, but none of the gains he extorted from the hapless Jim Lehrer. It has no future and is bulldozing its past in a desperate attempt to lull hapless inhabitants into a narcotised state of believing nothing will ever change. Sorry, but the endless apologies from hapless celebrities and witless pundits add up to a big zero. All the cast were worth their weight in gold but the audience particularly enjoyed Norman Pace's hapless constable Dogberry and his idiotic sidekicks. Tatum and Hill reunite in 22 Jump Street as Jenko and Schmidt, hapless cops who go undercover as students to bungle a drug ring. Not one to be bowed by the stereotype of an ugly American, Bill jumps all over his hapless prey like an elephant squashing a kitten to get to a saucer of milk. Consider its hapless efforts to handle major national questions such as the troop dispatch to Iraq or the parliamentary ratification of the Korea-Chile free trade agreement. I considering accosting a hapless victim in the produce department. It helps that Wendy Davis is a hapless opponent, but as a test proving it can be done, any success is welcomed. It becomes a hapless gesture of uninformed social media departments who perceive the potential of engagement without consequences. With them are thousands of other hapless mall-goers, descending rapidly into deadly anarchy. Finally, cleese goose-steps out of the dining room as the hapless Germans cringe and sob. Even if it's revealed that Doom 3 will revolve around a feline assisting a malcontent teen and a hapless FBI agent in solving a kidnapping, I'll still buy it. And if that was not enough for hapless investors, Evolution Beeson Gregory was dropped as the manager of the group's corporate activities, broking and advising. Show More Sentences She refuses, saying she needs to stay with her rather hapless boyfriend. In August and September, the Dolly Vardens follow the spawning salmon into the freshwater rivers, feeding on salmon eggs and hapless salmon fingerlings. Mendacious City Council members shafted us poor, hapless, ignorant sheeple again. Policemen who've grown uhhh, overnourished, by helping themselves to free meals at the expense of hapless carinderia owners. The Jayhawks completely whomped on the hapless Nimrods in today's opening-round game. Alfie Allen plays Wheezer, the hapless manager trying to hold The Grams together. The Father Ted actress kisses goodbye to the hapless heroine of her earlier novels and takes a tip or two out of Maeve Binchy's bestselling book. Sadly, Treuer romanticizes his one-dimensional Indians as hapless victims who have inherited every burden of loss during the past 500 years. Furry Vengeance is pitched at very young audiences, who will delight at the suffering meted out to Fraser's hapless fall guy. You wouldn't trust the hapless former Scottish Secretary to make a pig's ear out of a pig's ear. My dear friend, are you to become that hapless kind of outcast, a champion of lost causes? Grint is less the hapless bumbler, his inadequacies more real, while Radcliffe has deepened Harry's emotional core to far more persuasive levels. In the cast I saw, Calgarian Matthew Bruce sang the part of the hapless Candide charmingly. But Ophiocordyceps unilateralis is a stone-cold killer of carpenter ants, and it manipulates its hapless victims in an especially grisly way. So hapless idiot Alfie Moon pops off to Australia where he's offered PS15,000 for one night in the sack with gorgeous Aussie vamp, Nicole. Francis Maude advising motorists to fill jerry cans with petrol was just another pratfall in a hapless week for the Tories. Obversely, a street planner concerned with the self-isolating effects of modernist superblocks could consider, looking horizontally, a hapless pedestrian's point of view. Set in a weird fictional Scottish town, it followed a shower of oddball characters from the Butcher of Burnistoun to Jolly Boy Jon, hapless internet podcaster. Researchers found the Houdini-like gordian worm, which spends much of its life inside other insects, can wriggle free even if its hapless host is swallowed by a predator. Having lived in Algiers, Morgan would have seen returning corsairs with their booty and hapless captives, drudging along the streets to the bagnios of slavery. Show More Sentences Set in 1942 in a country vicarage, home to the hapless Rev Lionel Toop and his actressy wife Penelope, minor misunderstandings soon become social catastrophes. Steaming at top speed in wide circles, Warspite appeared as a juicy target to the German dreadnoughts and took 13 hits, inadvertently drawing fire from the hapless Warrior. Examples from Classical Literature Neaera could not afford to pity the hapless wights over whom Mrs. bort would rule. They saw that their case was hapless, yet on they came across the shelterless plain. Not all the resources of pert cockneyism availed that hapless domestic when she set eyes on Miss Mordaunt. But let us hype they distributed some of their superfluous coin among these hapless exiles to purchase food and a night's lodging. Or could Proclus have been persuaded by Thyone and Daphne to help them reconcile the hapless blind man to his hard fate? The Doctor falls down before the barricado, and is stretched all his hapless length fainting on the floor. But Fortune had not yet exhausted her malice against the hapless Athenians. This lordling threatens to eject these hapless Macalpines, and poor Kenneth, the widows son, is on the very verge of the grave. He was one of that hapless band who are always doing duty for other and better-off people. He sprang forward at once towards the hapless boy, dragging the coat with him. This saw his hapless Foes, but stood obdur'd, And to rebellious fight rallied thir Powers Insensate, hope conceiving from despair. Poor, hapless Bernardine could have cried aloud as she listened. They started for the Russian lines, toward one of the batteries which had so decimated the hapless wretches lying on the banks of the river. Thus, at last, our hapless travellers, deprived of water in this torrid heat, began to feel symptoms of mental disorder. And could love do so little at its most unfortunate and hapless ending? Once this procedure was the cause of a calamity of which Sebastijonas Szedvilas was the hapless victim. We mourn the loss of our little pet, And sigh o'er her hapless fate, For never more by the fire she'll sit, Nor play by the old green gate. The heroic, the high-minded, the hapless Tecumseh was fallen. Condemned forever to the back benches, hoist by his own petard, the hapless Fox hunted down by the pack. Dogwatch UK, which helps find homes for hapless hounds, is inviting people to tuck in to a variety of treats tomorrow at a garden party. Show More Sentences Reiner's caustic Sarmoti is priceless, particularly when, in tonight's episode, he dresses down two romantically hapless pandas. Man had a hundred means of quelling or forgetting a hapless passion. But moments after hapless Steve puckers up for a kiss, Shania whips off his wig to reveal he's a transvestite. That was a two-edged thrust, for Trix was decidedly an old girl, and Tom was generally regarded as a hapless victim. And shall thy hapless reliques rot, unwept, unhallowed, and forgot? Gruen's protagonist convincingly evolves from a hapless, rich gadabout into a serious, capable woman. I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands. Kevin is starring in new BBC comedy Mountain Goats and takes over the lead role of hapless rescue volunteer Conor from Kevin Guthrie, who played the part in the pilot. Monsieur d'Albon shuddered as he saw the utter abandonment of the body, the careless animal ease which revealed in the hapless woman a total absence of soul. Meanwhile, the Jalalpur Bhattian police have arrested Talib Shah under the Usurious Act on the charge of extorting interest from a hapless woman of Tahli Goraya. The hapless PS1 million a year PFA PF figurehead soon found himself facing bucketloads of ordure from the incandescent digital tribes and their shrieking acolytes. The crowd without gave way, and several warriors entered the place, bringing with them the hapless conjurer, who had been left so long by the scout in duress. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of hapless? Words that rhyme with hapless What is the adverb for hapless? What is the noun for hapless? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words haphazardness haphazardly haphazard ha'penny hapax hapa haplessly haplography haplogroup haploid haploids haplology 7-letter Words Starting With h ha hap hapl haple haples