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
• Any of these tourist ships caught in the area at the wrong time would be helpless to capsize.
  — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
• But then over the past few months, the tone went from helpless to straight up reckless.
  — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 25 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The Bears offense was mostly helpless in the first half.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2021
• And those soldiers and marines feel very helpless about that.
  — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2021
• The rout was on, and the freshman quarterback was helpless to stop it.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2021
• Maybe tending to them, in a time of helpless loss, has been a way of making sense of grief.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2021
• Feeling helpless, the two went home to figure out what to do next.
  — Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Days passed and O'Brien was overwhelmed with thoughts of Freddie, so small and helpless.
  — Kate Collins, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 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
• That left him helpless as Jonathan Menéndez ran onto the rebound and put the home side into the lead for the first time.
  — Jon Arnold, Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2021
• There were times when tears came down from feeling helpless.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 26 Nov. 2022
• Garrett throws Hill to the ground, and closes in on Cousins, as left guard Cleveland is left helpless.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The lawsuit filed in Maryland provides the most detailed account yet of the cascading series of failures on the Dali that left the vessel’s pilots and crew helpless in the face of looming disaster.
  — Lea Skene and Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2024
• If inflation can be traced to price-inflation, because of greed and because of the shutdown of the Chinese economy, America’s factory then the Fed is helpless to control it.
  — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024