How to Use hopelessly in a Sentence

hopelessly

adverb

• But both of these shows are hopelessly retro — in all the wrong ways.
  — Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 18 Oct. 2024
• The lines between work and home are hopelessly blurred.
  — Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2020
• The 2018 version of Goldschmidt looks hopelessly lost at the plate.
  — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 20 May 2018
• Predictably, the song soon got hopelessly stuck in my head.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2024
• Over the next month, Fjellhøy falls hopelessly in love.
  — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
• As the night marched on, images and sounds in two far-flung cities tumbled hopelessly out of sync.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• Meanwhile, the state crime lab was hopelessly backed up.
  — Susan Spencer, CBS News, 6 July 2024
• Right now, the thought of a single-purpose device like the iPod can feel hopelessly passe.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• When you’re hopelessly lost, a paper map — the more detailed the better — will save you.
  — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
• The place was a golf course—in other words, hopelessly uncool.
  — Darrell Hartman, WSJ, 1 July 2021
• The absence of the siblings doesn’t matter much either, even though the son will love them hopelessly.
  — Longreads, 11 Jan. 2024
• Keep watching to laugh with me, cry with me and fall hopelessly in love with me… and probably with more than one man.
  — Becca Kufrin, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2018
• Since then, the club’s 12-19 record had knocked it hopelessly behind the Rays for the division title.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2021
• Iman is a good man, but even a good man can be hopelessly corrupted.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2024
• And even the hopelessly optimistic Griffin had to know that the Davis pitch was little more than a hoops Hail Mary.
  — Jeff Duncan, nola.com, 21 June 2019
• Some don’t mind the hopelessly wrinkled fitted sheet that comes with linen.
  — Kelsey Keith, Curbed, 23 Aug. 2018
• 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 couple fall hopelessly in love and have a secret affair.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 21 Mar. 2020
• The entire cast is stacked, and features Christian Bale as the hopelessly in love Laurie.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 July 2022
• The woman fought hopelessly to gain control over Jasper.
  — Susanne Craig, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
• In the show, Orpheus (Killian Scott) is just as hopelessly in love with Riddy and is a famous singer.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 5 Sep. 2024
• But the idea that only a few players will make money seems hopelessly naïve.
  — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2019
• As the men guide Combs to walk alongside them, Diddy’s entourage looks on hopelessly.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Too tight and the wagon is hopelessly inefficient, too loose and the wheel wobbles and breaks apart.
  — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 6 May 2020
• 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
• In this young adult romance, Lila Reyes’ summer plans fall hopelessly apart.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
• Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes are hopelessly devoted to each other!
  — Chiara Kim, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
• Then there are the psychological pressures of underground life hopelessly far from home.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025