How to Use helpless in a Sentence

helpless

adjective

• The crowd was helpless with laughter.
• He was helpless with rage.
• Firefighters were helpless against the blaze.
• The civilians were helpless against their attackers.
• I feel helpless. Isn't there anything I can do?
• That does not mean the rest of the staff has been helpless.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
• The staff couldn’t help but feel helpless about the future.
  — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 21 July 2023
• Feel helpless watching the agent zip-tie a green net around the crate.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
• When children and teens feel helpless, the world can feel like a scary place.
  — Katie Hurley, CNN, 18 July 2022
• Unlike the dogs, there is a group of people who refuse to learn to be helpless.
  — Nathan Furr, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• There are so many things that are out of your control, which leads you to feel helpless and lost.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• The truth is that these leaders are helpless to think any other way.
  — Andrew Mawson, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• During the first half of the season, South Elgin’s Zoie Lewis felt helpless at times.
  — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2023
• Even when the calls were obvious for the Eagles, the Giants were helpless to stop them.
  — Dan Gelston, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2023
• The Hawks were helpless to stop Adebayo’s lob game with Herro.
  — George Henry, ajc, 28 Nov. 2022
• There were times when tears came down from feeling helpless.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022
• Bove said the end of free meals has left her feeling heartbroken and helpless.
  — Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 12 Jan. 2023
• The lack of a consistent profile doesn’t leave us helpless.
  — Jillian Peterson, Chron, 15 May 2022
• That somebody could make me, in that moment, feel helpless.
  — Carma Hassan, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• Soaring with the ball in his right hand, Jaquez threw down a vicious dunk over the helpless defender.
  — Austin Knoblauchassistant Editor, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• She was overcome with fear and had never felt more helpless.
  — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2022
• But Grimm felt helpless and wrestled with feelings of shame.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
• That's where Hale barged in on March 27 and opened fire on helpless students and staff members, killing three adults and three children.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 26 July 2023
• Pele controls the ball in the penalty area with his thigh, flips it over the head of the defender and smashes it past a helpless Kalle Svensson.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• With no idea how to express her ideas, she was left feeling overwhelmed and helpless.
  — Billboard China, Billboard, 24 May 2023
• The economy is in free fall and the weak coalition government seems helpless to stop it.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2022
• Farmers were helpless against the onslaught and fired muskets at the intruders or chased them with clubs, sticks and stones.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
• Some of our patients have even shared feeling helpless.
  — Jonah Valdezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2022
• Worse still, Mia begins to show signs of being bullied, which makes Sarah feel helpless.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2023
• The world has moved on, but time has stood still for Jeanine Kunkel, who remains like a newborn, helpless and bedridden.
  — Laura Reiley and Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024