How to Use hopeless in a Sentence

hopeless

adjective

• We were the most hopeless group of golfers you ever saw.
• He felt confused and hopeless after losing his job.
• He's very ill, but his condition isn't hopeless.
• Candidates and their campaigns can affect how hopeful, and hopeless, Americans feel.
  — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2024
• The 36 years of waiting have left them exhausted, angry, and disoriented — but never hopeless.
  — Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 15 Sep. 2024
• For the next 11 games, though, Duarte's shot seemed to be a hopeless cause.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2023
• Here are steps to hire the right one That’s not to say that things are hopeless.
  — Winnie Sun, CNBC, 19 July 2024
• The irony, of course, is that Tess is the one who should feel hopeless coming out of that fight.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2023
• But not taking those risks is a hopeless point of view to start from.
  — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• In a world at war with the rat, a defense of the enemy might seem hopeless.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• Then the dynamic shifts as the case gets more hopeless.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
• Hope may be the thing with feathers, but this bunch of feathers is hopeless.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
• This Mitchell Rosenthal spent his life trying to help the helpless, give hope to the hopeless.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
• There are no easy answers, but that doesn’t mean the future is hopeless.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• And so on, until the unfinished stairs and the hopeless Piranesi both are lost in the upper gloom of the hall.
  — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023
• But the month of June is here to give you reminders along the way that you’re never too lost and your case is never hopeless.
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• Even when all might be lost in a hopeless desert of lifeless toxic sludge, the future feels bright.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
• For those of us who have small infants, the frustrations of eczema can seem hopeless.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
• The Joe Goldberg psyche — hopeless romantic who kills in the name of love — will not be new to fans of the series.
  — Karin Tanabe, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• Without him, escape from the Wachowskis' world of code and chaos looks hopeless.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
• What once emerged as a hopeless tangle now exits the dryer as—get this—an apron.
  — Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 25 Oct. 2023
• That is, for so long, that as entertainment was our way out of a hopeless life.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 16 Apr. 2024
• To be fair, the Yankees did not seem so utterly hopeless through much of this season.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
• As are a few other students in the school, who feel hopeless to change their fate without an influx of cash.
  — Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
• But this isn’t the first time that Shakira, a hopeless romantic with an armored heart, pens a song for an ex.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2023
• Give them room enough to walk, a taste of life that isn’t bitter and hopeless, a glimpse of humanity that doesn’t fill them with dread.
  — Matthew Scully, National Review, 11 July 2022
• That left her and the family feeling hopeless, but Vusi’s sister seemed to be taking it the worst.
  — Washington Post, 17 July 2021
• Most often, people posted that this was the first good news after months of the hopeless horror of the current war.
  — TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
• So maybe there is hope for anyone else who found love in a hopeless place during the pandemic.
  — Sydney Clarke, refinery29.com, 9 June 2021
• My house is cramped, with me, my wife, our two kids, and our dog all riding out this hopeless time together.
  — Dan Sinker, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024