How to Use unhelpful in a Sentence

unhelpful

adjective

• The eggs can stand for the czar’s unhelpful myopia during the perilous days of 1917.
  — Olga Ingurazova, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• The unhelpful strike zone of home plate umpire Alan Porter didn’t help.
  — Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times, 16 June 2017
• The app is full of all sorts of other unhelpful features too.
  — Parker Hall, WIRED, 27 July 2024
• These unhelpful thoughts may have served us in the past, but are no longer productive.
  — Melody Wilding, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Leap and the net will appear - what a broad and unhelpful aphorism thrown in the face of single women in their 30s and 40s the world over, the play suggests.
  — Wei-Huan Chen, Houston Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• Up the road in Houston, the Rockets were proving unhelpful as well.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Apr. 2018
• Some cling to the notion that stimulus is unhelpful, risky and hard.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• Since the user won’t get prompts like that in real life, your results will be unhelpful.
  — Kevin Philpott, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Hopefully, Jack, like his mom, has learned to tune out the unhelpful chatter.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 30 Nov. 2023
• The emails from Meta were always polite, but unhelpful.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2024
• If the edit is deemed wrong or unhelpful, the would-be editors lose their token.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2018
• Utah, on the other hand, is the worst, and its solutions are unorthodox and unhelpful.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 27 June 2022
• In the meantime, however, Twitch's advice to streamers is unhelpful, to say the least.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2020
• When the Taser proved unhelpful, Smith moved to his baton, McDermott said.
  — al, 19 Nov. 2019
• The latest comments may be his most impolitic and unhelpful, though.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
• Trump aides have long viewed Project 2025 as unhelpful and have sought distance from the plan, saying Trump doesn’t embrace many of the proposals.
  — Hannah Knowles, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• That’s unhelpful for many academics whose studies have longer time frames.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 19 Oct. 2018
• But even those have a heightened level of drama that is unhelpful.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• My coworkers all knew her and were just as shocked with grief as anyone but had mostly unhelpful things to say.
  — April Bridgeman, Woman's Day, 13 Apr. 2016
• Response to our emails was unhelpful and with several days’ lag time.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 31 Mar. 2020
• In the end, feeling out of control is the result of letting your brain run in a groove that’s unhelpful and unproductive.
  — Melody Wilding, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• Many players quit early on since the game was so difficult and unhelpful, and the launch of World of Warcraft in 2004 took a huge divot out of the EQ fanbase.
  — Andy Patrizio, Ars Technica, 6 June 2019
• Even when Lindsay fell ill with a fever, and lost her sense of smell, Frank kept her from indulging in her worst, most unhelpful tendencies.
  — Connie Wang, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2020
• Don't let an unhelpful pattern entrap you -- take this moment to break free!
  — Chicago Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
• This practice is both lazy and unhelpful, especially when the questions are reused from year to year.
  — WSJ, 18 Oct. 2022
• Nobody tells you how unhelpful people can be, or how unfriendly the world can seem.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2022
• An unhelpful comparison: At the same age, Messi was still trundling about with Barcelona’s third team.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• That unhelpful suggestion forced me to learn to rewire (yay!).
  — Robert Khederian, Curbed, 14 Mar. 2018
• Any lack of uniformity is commercially unhelpful to grocery stores, who require their fresh produce to look the same.
  — Charlotte Lytton, Vox, 5 Sep. 2024
• In fact, many of our male and female snowboard testers ride unisex boards, which are becoming increasingly popular as brands turn away from largely unhelpful gender constraints.
  — Drew Zieff, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024