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.
  • And what a hopeless way to just lose your childhood to that.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • However, the hopeless romantic in me is not one to say no to a wedding!
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Employees, stuck working from home for months on end can feel despondent and hopeless.
    Shawn Freeman, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Joe Namath was a hopeless dork-for-life compared with Brady’s cool in that moment.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • There has never been a better week to be a hopeless romantic with a Netflix account.
    Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2021
  • As hopeless at that may sound, Drowning Dry is not entirely a downer, either.
    Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
  • In many ways our situation as Palestinians has never felt more hopeless.
    Mustafa Barghouti, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The Mayor has the right to veto assembly actions but that would be hopeless as a re-vote would still pass by the assembly.
    Anchorage Daily News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • One in five children live in the most abject, dangerous, hopeless, back-breaking, gut-wrenching poverty any of us could imagine.
    Lizzie Logan, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The effort may seem hopeless in the short term, but critics outside the academy should support those working to reform from within.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
  • That there seemingly is no contradiction to reconcile between past and present feels hopeless.
    Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The more Enes Kanter has to play, the more hopeless Portland’s defensive prospects become.
    oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Sarah, who identifies as a hopeless romantic, believes that your wedding day is the most important and happiest day of your life.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Some of the minority groups also had higher rates of feeling suicidal, sad or hopeless compared to the rates for male and White youth.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Jen has been unemployed for 10 months, feeling increasingly hopeless with each job interview that doesn’t go anywhere.
    Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Elon Musk’s chances of winning his second lawsuit against OpenAI look grim, but in law nothing is entirely hopeless.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The University of Alabama has the market covered this year on feel-good stories for hopeless sports romantics.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The federal bureaucracy, the media, and the academy, all dominated by the left wing, seem to view many of them as hopeless rubes in need of radical reeducation.
    William J. Watkins Jr, National Review, 20 Feb. 2021
  • 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

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