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.
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For the next 11 games, though, Duarte's shot seemed to be a hopeless cause.
— Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2023 -
We’re supposed to bring light to a dark world and hope to the hopeless.
— Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 12 Jan. 2021 -
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 -
And what a hopeless way to just lose your childhood to that.
— Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2021 -
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 -
Their leaves were scattered on the ground – brown, brittle, hopeless.
— Terry Pluto, cleveland, 19 Dec. 2020 -
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 -
Tracking down a mildew smell in your bathroom can feel hopeless.
— Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 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 -
That however hopeless things may seem as a young gay man struggling to fit in, the world is changing.
— Faith Karimi, CNN, 6 Mar. 2021 -
Gen Zers have been described as hopeless, creative, weird, intelligent, and more.
— John Rau, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 -
Calling all hopeless romantics, heart-breakers and everyone in between: The day to celebrate boyfriends is nearly upon us.
— Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 3 Oct. 2024
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