How to Use hapless in a Sentence

hapless

adjective

• She plays the hapless heroine who is unlucky in love.
• All the Colts had to do to make the playoffs was beat the hapless 2-14 Jacksonville Jaguars.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2022
• That costs him — and his hapless partners — tons of points.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• What if the Bengals lose Sunday in Jersey to the hapless Jets?
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2021
• Break the curse, beat a hapless Jacksonville team in the Florida sun and the Colts are headed to the playoffs.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2022
• The dizzying pacing, the litany of hapless jokes, the all-out slapstick and the familiar shtick.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• She’s accompanied by the very last dragon in the world: the hapless but kind Sisu.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2021
• Charlie Winshaw, the hapless new face of the franchise.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• In no way does this mean that Kyle Shanahan and Co. can overlook a hapless Detroit team on the road.
  — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
• What the hapless Kafka-esque hero is accused of, no one knows, and no one cares.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• The Chargers are not the hapless Jets, of course, but the Chargers do have the league’s worst run defense by giving up 162.5 yards per game.
  — Matt Youmans, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, Beau’s hapless lawyer is thrown from his balcony and smashed against the rocks below.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• The offense looked hapless for much of it as the Tigers did just enough to beat a two-win Mississippi State team.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 13 Dec. 2020
• The hapless guard also got a tongue-lashing from my mother.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
• Dismantling the hapless Colts, who fired coach Frank Reich the very next day, may not be a promise of more.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
• Dafoe, Peter Sarsgaard and Emmanuelle Seigner are just a few of the hapless adults caught in their web.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
• Stranger Things Season 4 brought love, loss, and gore for our hapless Hawkins heroes.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 July 2022
• But this isn’t a column about a hapless husband who falls apart when he’s left to his own devices.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
• But then again, why not love your job, your sister, your tutee, and your hapless neighbor and just hope for the best?
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 9 July 2021
• When running back Leonard Fournette punched in the next score, tying the game 27-27, the Bucs had come all the way back and the Rams looked utterly hapless.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• Prosecutors said Klein was not a hapless member of the crowd but a leader in the charge to storm the building.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021
• Over the weekend against the ill-fitting and hapless Los Angeles Lakers, the Cavs flipped the proverbial switch.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
• Hamm’s version is less cruel and more hapless than Chase’s.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
• This week, the G-Men get a hapless Patriots offense at home that have scored 17-or-fewer points in eight of the last nine games.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• At times, Rebecca, who managed the bar in the show, appeared to be a hapless and gold-digging mess.
  — Andrew Dalton and Alicia Rancilio, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• Just after the hour mark, Rodrygo ran deep from near the halfway line to fire the fourth past a hapless Paulo Gazzaniga.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Young Ruth had been hapless in his début, finishing a distant eighth out of nine.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
• As the hapless target, Strong makes the most of his reserved character by seeming to do not much at all.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
• Johns brothers continue to make a statement this week with the first 4-0 whitewash of a team of the weekend, defeating the hapless Columbus Sliders.
  — Todd Boss, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• Listen to this article The hapless Rockies made franchise infamy again on Tuesday in Detroit.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024