How to Use help in a Sentence

help

1 of 2 verb

• She took an aspirin to help her headache.
• It's not much money, but every little bit helps.
• Help! Somebody call the police!
• Don't blame me: I was only trying to help!
• Humor often helps a tense situation.
• The shade should also help slow the fading of the Lego bricks used.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2021
• Light southwest winds help keep most lows in the low-to-mid 40s.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• The skier’s partner was able to come to his aid and help dig him out of the snow.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
• The players can't help but get more and more comfortable on the chairs and the floor.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 17 May 2023
• New head coach Bryan Harsin was around to help but didn’t take over.
  — Giana Han, al, 31 Dec. 2020
• Both are here to learn English, and Iris can help with that.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2018
• Smyly, 32, will get a chance to help the Cubs this time.
  — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2022
• The front bungee can hold extra items or help compress the bag.
  — Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 19 Dec. 2022
• And the weather didn't seem to help the Tigers' bullpen much, either.
  — Jenna Malinowski, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
• And there is no time or space to sit and cry because that will not help.
  — Lanae Brody, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2023
• Co-workers ran to help, and the suspect fled, Ratliff said.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2021
• The happy ending will help, but the image of the lost girl will stick with you.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 29 Oct. 2018
• That’s not to say playing with and against the world’s best can’t help a career.
  — Nick Lozito, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 July 2021
• In the new film, all this precocious young fox wants is to help his hero save the world.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• Oversize knobs help their hands grip and open the drawers.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 18 May 2023
• Those are all things that help tell the story of who these people are.
  — Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2020
• One thing that helped me get through the mornings was coffee.
  — Ashley Edwards Walker, Good Housekeeping, 2 Mar. 2018
• Lowry certainly didn’t help change that thought against the Bulls.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
• Cutts, who is one of those seniors, was helped off the field late with a leg injury.
  — OrlandoSentinel.com, 25 May 2018
• And so that was what my kind of my lifelong dream was, was to find a way to help people.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2023
• It's also made to help train and control hard pulling dogs.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 15 Sep. 2022
• The film’s first-rate cast helps relax our posture too.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
• Tips for Using the Lemon Filling To help save on time, make the curd while your cake layers are in the oven.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2023
• Named after the African moniker for a powerful, successful woman, Nala Track Club helps ensure a safe training camp environment for participants and covers housing and education costs for those who need it.
  — Brande Victorian, Essence, 15 Apr. 2024
• The company also helps fund groups like the CyberPeace Institute, which advocates for a safer internet and helps defend nongovernment organizations from hackers.
  — Eric Geller, WIRED, 15 Apr. 2024

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help

2 of 2 noun

• He thanked us for our help.
• I could use some help with the dishes.
• He's been more of a hindrance than a help.
• We could hear shouts for help coming from the house.
• But the more months that passed, the more help the boys seemed to need.
  — Author: Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2019
• In moments the area was a blur of sirens and calls for help.
  — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2021
• What will the rich ladies do when there is no help around?
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2021
• Joe and Fi, and the rest of our neighbors, need our help.
  — Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 June 2022
• One of the agents, Stephen Garland, then called for help.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• Does this type of matchup help to take your game to the next level?
  — Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 25 Nov. 2020
• The Beavers couldn't have done it without plenty of help from the Ducks.
  — Gary Horowitz, ajc, 27 Nov. 2022
• Kimkeá Harris: That's what he was raised to do — to be a help.
  — Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
• Have kids cut out the rubbings and string them up with your help.
  — Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh, National Geographic, 26 Feb. 2020
• Phillips ran up the driveway of a nearby home to ask for help.
  — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 8 June 2020
• There were a couple folks that came aboard as moms that didn’t get the help.
  — Jane M. Von Bergen, Philly.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• That’s the type of help Rodgers will need going forward.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2022
• The helpline is open, and help is available from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. CST in most languages.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 27 Jan. 2023
• Having said that, there is help for him and for her as well.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2020
• But nothing helped for long, and sirolimus didn’t help at all.
  — STAT, 1 July 2019
• Having a voice that guides you and keeps track of the time can also be a huge help.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 30 Nov. 2022
• Many lack phones or way to keep them charged, and so are unable to call 911 for help.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2022
• The final piece of the puzzle was with the help of Coca-Cola.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2022
• South also got help on the drive thanks to a 15-yard face mask penalty.
  — Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2022
• How to be a great teammate, how to play great help defense.
  — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 5 July 2022
• This didn’t help at all – and the next call was again littered with complaints.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2020
• But the action and humor throughout the film help make up for his loss.
  — Jennifer Jhon, South Florida Parenting, 28 Apr. 2018
• Gaiman’s Jewish cousins escaped the Nazis thanks to the help of the resistance).
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
• But new research suggests help may be close at hand — in the kitchen.
  — Healthday, chicagotribune.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• But police were asking the public for help identifying a person in a photo and video released Tuesday.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
• When administered to a person suffering an opioid overdose, Narcan can stop the opiate damage until the person can get medical help.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024