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
• And to cause the death of that helpless baby is so wrong.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 2 Dec. 2020
• 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
• In the loss to the Raiders, the defense was almost helpless defending the run.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Trust me, Jews are not helpless in the face of arguments.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 17 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Nandor is mostly just helpless without Guillermo and needs to be close to him — a bit like a puppy, to continue the animal metaphor.
  — Katie Rife, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
• This creates a helpless but highly effective kind of suspense, as Iris must rely on her tormentor to mess up, at least until her limbs start to respond again.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024