HOPELESS in a Sentence
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145 example sentences for HOPELESS, such as:
1. By this time, he was hopelessly pickled.
2. I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
3. We have to charge off the debt as hopeless.
4. I'd be hopeless at working for somebody else.
5. The firm had to charge off the debt as hopeless.
2. I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
3. We have to charge off the debt as hopeless.
4. I'd be hopeless at working for somebody else.
5. The firm had to charge off the debt as hopeless.
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Meanings and Examples of HOPELESS
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hopeless
a. certain to fail
a. of a person unable to do something skillfully
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1 Although they had been so quiet since the first outbreak of the matter, that most people really did suppose it to have been abandoned as hopeless, nothing new occurred.
2 Another suitor might feel jealousy while he touched this string; but my firm purpose cannot be changed by a passion so childish and so hopeless.
3 Clifford felt his father was a hopeless anachronism.
4 A kind of hopeless affection he seemed to feel for her, and the essential remoteness remained the same.
5 He was hopeless at the very core of him, and he wanted to be hopeless.
6 And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever quite love at all.
7 For the rest, among the old trees was depth within depth of grey, hopeless inertia, silence, nothingness.
8 It made her feel immensely depressed and hopeless.
9 As for the cottages of England--there they are--great plasterings of brick dwellings on the hopeless countryside.
10 'Their lives are industrialized and hopeless, and so are ours,' she cried.
11 But already Paris was full of Americans and English, strange Americans in the oddest uniforms, and the usual dreary English that are so hopeless abroad.
12 Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night rendered its further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with reluctance.
13 Anne had done; glad that it was over, and not absolutely hopeless of doing good.
14 They were sick with horror, while he examined; but he was not hopeless.
15 The head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries recovered from: he was by no means hopeless; he spoke cheerfully.
Example Sentence:
1 The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
2 A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
3 He gave way to hopeless grief as soon as he heard the bad message.
4 I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
5 The firm had to charge off the debt as hopeless.
6 We have to charge off the debt as hopeless.
7 Ian was a hopeless innocent where women were concerned.
8 The doctor said the old man's condition was hopeless.
9 At school I was quite good at arts, but hopeless at science.
10 I'd be hopeless at working for somebody else.
11 But to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.
12 The fishing lines had become hopelessly entangled.
13 I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and became hopelessly lost.
14 I'm no good at dancing - I always get hopelessly out of step.
15 By this time, he was hopelessly pickled.