How to Use hapless in a Sentence

hapless

adjective

• She plays the hapless heroine who is unlucky in love.
• In the meantime, the hapless bride must buy her own mitts.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• 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
• The next week, against hapless Northwestern, the Hoosiers roll.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 1 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Better to be miles above the ground for longer, than stuck hapless in a stuffy cabin, unable to take off.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Gulls and boobies darted down to gorge on the hapless creatures.
  — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
• That’s what a loss to the hapless Washington Football Team will do to a fanbase.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• The Dolphins have hit the soft midsection of their schedule, and the hapless Jets roll into town.
  — Keven Lerner, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2020
• 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
• But come apart late The Irish looked hapless and punched out midway through the second half, as Indiana stretched the lead to as much as 17.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2019
• 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
• The slapstick finale has all the Universal Monsters going at it, with a hapless Chick and Wilbur trying to escape in one piece.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
• But Ivanka, who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, playing hapless heroine who finally gets her due?
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025