HAPLESS in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for HAPLESS, such as:
1. His hapless lover was knocked down by a car.
2. The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.
3. Then indeed, hapless and dismayed by doom, Dido prays for death, and is weary of gazing on the arch of heaven.
4. Retreating hastily, and tripped on the altars that meet him behind, the hapless man goes down on his head and shoulders.
5. Dantes from his rocky perch saw the shattered vessel, and among the fragments the floating forms of the hapless sailors.
2. The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.
3. Then indeed, hapless and dismayed by doom, Dido prays for death, and is weary of gazing on the arch of heaven.
4. Retreating hastily, and tripped on the altars that meet him behind, the hapless man goes down on his head and shoulders.
5. Dantes from his rocky perch saw the shattered vessel, and among the fragments the floating forms of the hapless sailors.
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Meanings and Examples of HAPLESS
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hapless
a. deserving or inciting pity
Classic Sentence:
1 Above all the hapless Phoenician, victim to coming doom, cannot satiate her soul, but, stirred alike by the boy and the gifts, she gazes and takes fire.
2 Then indeed, hapless and dismayed by doom, Dido prays for death, and is weary of gazing on the arch of heaven.
3 Meanwhile Aeneas and his fleet in unwavering track now held mid passage, and cleft the waves that blackened under the North, looking back on the city that even now gleams with hapless Elissa's funeral flame.
4 Retreating hastily, and tripped on the altars that meet him behind, the hapless man goes down on his head and shoulders.
5 But when his hapless sister knew afar the whistling wings of the Fury, Juturna unbinds and tears her tresses, with rent face and smitten bosom.
6 Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
7 I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.
8 I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
9 The first generous impulse of Duncan was to rush to the rescue of the hapless wretch; but he felt himself bound to the spot by the iron grasp of the immovable scout.
10 The crowd without gave way, and several warriors entered the place, bringing with them the hapless conjurer, who had been left so long by the scout in duress.
11 Dantes from his rocky perch saw the shattered vessel, and among the fragments the floating forms of the hapless sailors.
Example Sentence:
1 The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.
2 His hapless lover was knocked down by a car.