How to Use hopelessly in a Sentence

hopelessly

adverb

• Over the next month, Fjellhøy falls hopelessly in love.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• Right now, the thought of a single-purpose device like the iPod can feel hopelessly passe.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• The absence of the siblings doesn’t matter much either, even though the son will love them hopelessly.
  — Longreads, 11 Jan. 2024
• Since then, the club’s 12-19 record had knocked it hopelessly behind the Rays for the division title.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• When their hair begins to fall out, many people hopelessly look for ways to slow down the process and promote more hair growth.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
• The entire cast is stacked, and features Christian Bale as the hopelessly in love Laurie.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 July 2022
• How perfect, then, that in a game in which the Rangers trailed hopelessly, Chapman pitched a perfect eighth Wednesday?
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• And in the first weeks of the war, Russian offensives in the north aimed at Kyiv, the capital, and Kharkiv, the second-largest city, became hopelessly bogged down.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2022
• These sheets washed well, and came out of my dryer looking rumpled, but not hopelessly creased.
  — Lisa Lombardi, wsj.com, 25 Sep. 2023
• Now who but the hopelessly old at heart will deny that’s refreshing?
  — Jamie Bryan, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2023
• While most brands benefit from a good stir or a quick whip in a mixer, others are hopelessly greasy or sticky.
  — Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
• Seven of Nine) travel back to Earth in 2024 to prevent the timeline from going hopelessly askew.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 2 Mar. 2022
• All of this came in Fairhaven’s first-quarter scoring onslaught that put the game hopelessly out of each for the winless visitors (0-5).
  — Aj Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• Meanwhile the sea itself seemed to deepen hopelessly, like shadows do as the day creeps onward.
  — Hannah Gold, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Once again the Stars looked hopelessly out of position as Eeli Tolvanen skated in from the right side and fired a shot past Oettinger with 39 seconds to go.
  — Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 8 May 2023
• The rituals were the start of 10 days of ceremony that will strike some as charming and others as hopelessly out of date.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• In the eyes of adolescents, once wondrous parents can seem hopelessly flawed.
  — Emily Bobrow, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
• This has created, by 2021, a ballot that is hopelessly log-jammed.
  — Dom Amore, courant.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• On the three remaining charges, the jury was hopelessly deadlocked.
  — Michael Liedtke, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2022
• But there should be ways to present that idea without making the New Republic seem hopelessly inept.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
• The third-year safety gave the Patriots hope when their offense was plodding along hopelessly.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
• One soul is a little more hopelessly lost than the others, however, and that’s the role assigned to the Oscar nominee.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
• Iran has a horrendous human-rights record, but that hasn’t stopped Democrats from hopelessly pursuing a deal with it.
  — WSJ, 11 July 2022
• In the months that followed, nearly every single aspect of his life fell hopelessly apart.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2023
• The fact that everybody is a liar, the fact that people are hopelessly self-deceived about their own actions and intentions doesn’t mean that there isn’t truth.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The distraught and sightless Orion wandered hopelessly for days on end.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 25 Feb. 2024
• Claudia Rose arrived in early 1993, but not before Pfeiffer agreed to a blind date with Kelley and fell hopelessly in love.
  — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2022
• Myth #5: Your natal chart stays the same, meaning you are hopelessly doomed to repeat everything.
  — Emily Simone, Allure, 20 May 2022
• And finally, there’s Dylan, a teenage boy who lives with an illness that keeps him in his bedroom—but hasn’t stopped him falling hopelessly in love.
  — Emily Bond, menshealth.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Easy: You'd be hopelessly lost, with endless questions.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024