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Sentence Examples Every few sentences, one or the other of them would break into infectious laughter, and the two of them would laugh helplessly. The boats often get lost or break down, drifting helplessly in the Atlantic or capsizing in rough seas. Dangling there, suspended from a horizontal beam of petrified wood, his legs flailed helplessly beneath him. A group of stunned surfers spotted the basking shark thrashing helplessly in a sand bar. Lifeboat crew were called into action when they went to the aid of three elderly fishermen drifting helplessly. The play intimately invites us to share the confusion of two lovers who watch helplessly as their relationship crumbles. He would neither pointlessly defy nor helplessly flee the real monsters of his upbringing. His sister was laughing helplessly and trying to sip her tea at the same time. When I met him, I suddenly, helplessly, had a surge of fond feeling for him. The final four minutes of the movie displays the plight of the kid, and ends with the child crying helplessly. There will not be any redemption or easy answers as we slide helplessly towards an agonizing end to a near masterpiece. The two young women end up giggling helplessly over the melodramatic dialogue. There had to be a reason why he lost control and watched helplessly as his own body committed such an outrageous act. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Roman Colosseum to rubble. Resplendent in white gloves and peaked cap, the traffic policeman watched helplessly. I was helplessly trapped in the cockpit with the aircraft lying on its starboard side. Turning away to look helplessly at Kaethe, he inched sideways along the wall like a retreating crab. A single police constable posted at the multiplex watched helplessly as the mob struck. It twirls helplessly in the centre of the bath, quickly loosing more and more of itself, bubbling, frothing, and disappearing. She had to listen helplessly for an hour as her sons were gassed in the back of a car by her estranged husband. Show More Sentences The second came from an intimidating dead-ball delivery by Beckham that Jermaine Taylor helplessly headed into his own net. The stranger looked very unsettled by this, and just glanced around helplessly for a moment. It just depresses me that so many people waste so much time bleating inanely and helplessly when there are lives to go out and live. Vale watched helplessly as a series of explosions reduced the once-proud cruiser to a blackened derelict. A child and his father watch helplessly as the Bhagirathi waters slowly devour Old Tehri town. Infuriated residents watched on helplessly as lorry loads of human waste sludge was dumped within 40 metres of their homes last weekend. He laughed, teasing me, and I watched helplessly as the last drop of milk dribbled into his cereal bowl. As he stood there helplessly watching, the foundation post gave way and the house collapsed. As his plane plunges into freefall, spinning helplessly in jet stream like a poohstick in an eddy. Jenny had to look on helplessly as her tiny son was weaned off the effects of heroin. Three sharp raps at the door interrupted his speech and Ben looked helplessly to Marie. He was beaten until he lay writhing helplessly on the ground, whereupon his captors doused his body with kerosene and set it ablaze. May watched the mer-woman helplessly, wrung with pity and cursing her terrible fate. I watched helplessly as a small splash of milk issued from the jug and landed in the bowl. Gardner and teammates watched helplessly as the final six seconds ticked off the clock. The old lady was helplessly bedridden but was nursed to health by this caring neighbour. We had somehow got one of our mooring ropes entangled in the propeller of the boat, we had no engines, and we were drifting helplessly. Soon everything was on fire and she watched helplessly as her skin blistered and burned. I clenched my fists helplessly and struggled back to a sitting position, thinking unprintable thoughts. I flailed helplessly for a moment as the canoe was turned upside-down and I was plunged face first into the lake beneath it. Show More Sentences Now that I found out he was an upstanding and respected police officer, I felt so helplessly worthless. Her mother's voice broke helplessly, and she blinked rapidly, pulling her daughter in for a tight embrace. Big carp, even bigger buffalo and hundreds of panfish flopped helplessly in the pasture's tall fescue and dried up cow patties. Her family were heartbroken as they watched helplessly as she slipped further into the seedy world of drugs and vice. Extending my arm swiftly causing his body to careen helplessly over some empty tables and land in a heap, brought closure to the altercation. They all minded themselves helplessly as they stirred with talks of gossip, death, and pets. A journey back from the shop for two young Sligo town boys ended in one of them getting struck by a car while the other watched on helplessly. Once he starts recruiting his own army, the film spins helplessly out of control. He looks at her helplessly, then makes as if to say something. Padlin stared helplessly at his drawing, at his maladroit strokes. It was night and a cool breeze started him shivering helplessly. The audience effectively gets stuck in the panic on the rock face, watching helplessly as Peter makes a life-altering decision that will taint relations with his sister. Their oddity is that Lombardi's craftsmanship is so exquisite that one senses him helplessly luxuriating in the very complexity that he claims to find so suspicious. Rather than helplessly obeying the dictates of management, workers are obliged to do what union bosses tell them. Her novels are not, as some insist on thinking, the helplessly romantic effusions of a repressed spinster. Many watched helplessly as their life savings were flushed down the drain. Half a dozen ran forward, as if they thought they could somehow dash into that seething inferno and pull him out, but the heat beat them back, and they stopped helplessly. I am trapped helplessly in the middle like a stunned mullet. It is very difficult to sit by helplessly while a friend is imprisoned for a crime that is too implausible to comprehend. We are helplessly adrift and our current location is unknown. Show More Sentences I couldn't find any words to say, and instead gestured helplessly. An hour earlier, phalanxes of police officers had closed in on peaceful sidewalk protestors, forcing them into the street and herding them helplessly away. He laid helplessly on the ground, reaching in Taylor's direction. It's almost amusing, until one of them sinks into a pool of oily sludge and wings greased, struggles helplessly to get free as the others fly off. Nor do we taint John Le Carre's understated brilliance with the unpalatable thought that Jeffrey Archer is forever trying helplessly to write in roughly the same genre. The master's pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buzz of study ceased. The pupils wondered if this fool-hardy boy had lost his mind. The Portuguese ships, anchored out in the harbor and unable to approach the docks, helplessly watch the unfolding massacre. She is helplessly oblivious to what is going on between Iago and Othello. As soon as I heard news of his death, tears started to well up in my eyes, and soon I was weeping helplessly. When it came to paying it back, he was helplessly and horribly bedridden. Without thinking, you may soon be grabbing handfuls of chionodoxa, ixia and watsonia, helplessly seduced by pictures of their flowers on each bulb box. Willard is plagued by the memory of one seemingly endless night as a newlywed when she helplessly watched her fever-ridden husband toss and turn in misery. The spectators gaped helplessly as the balloon approached the power lines. Heroin appeared on the streets of our town for the first time, and Innie watched helplessly as his sixteen-year-old brother began taking the train to Harlem to cop smack. Examples from Classical Literature I thought of a horseshoe crab, stranded on its back and kicking helplessly. Spun around and held as a human shield I had to helplessly watch her come yawning in the kitchen door. A boat was circling round and round helplessly some way beyond the diving board. He looks around helplessly as if searching for new words to clothe an old, shopworn phrase. He felt as if he were a June bug buzzing helplessly at the end of a string. I am not a purposeless bit of jetsam flung out on the ocean of time to be tossed about helplessly. His left arm swung helplessly and he could not climb the limbless lower trunk of a lance tree with only one arm. Then letting his arms fall helplessly to his sides in dejection, he departed. The trainman looked about helplessly, for he had not been on the road long. He blacked out, sinking helplessly into the black plush night of unawareness. He looked at her helplessly, realising that she was making fun of him, and she laughed. The reprobate ended his boastful confession with another burst of hiccuping, and Staniford helplessly laughed. Ted shook his head helplessly, while his sister laughed at his discomfiture. The city rocket ships that crossed the sky on pillars of scarlet flame darted helplessly, frightenedly for shelter. Loveland poked the fire from beneath and then sighed helplessly. The enemy collapsed at his feet and writhed helplessly on the floor. His head seemed to be flying about like a pinwheel and then projecting itself off into space and his arms and legs flopped helplessly about. She walked helplessly around the harbour filled with vessels, and knocked against hawsers. Then Tom could not restrain himself, and gave Maggie two smart slaps on the arm as he ran to pick up Lucy, who lay crying helplessly. They hung all askew, helplessly pinned, some broadside, some upended. Show More Sentences It fell, clawing and tearing, to roll helplessly down the slope. He drew in his breath as he turned helplessly over the pages of Beal and Stanislas Julien. Marcia looked up at Lee helplessly, smilingly, fascinatingly. Daphne was suddenly taken with a fou rire and began to laugh helplessly. Thankful held the gaudy ring at arm's length and stared at it helplessly. He leaned back in his rocker and gave himself up to it helplessly. One will be unavoidably and helplessly preferred to the other. Over went the schooner, till she lay helplessly on her beam-ends. One of them, snow-blind, towed helplessly at the rear of a sled. Amid a mass of spoondrift the schooner drove helplessly before it. She looked at him helplessly, so attractive and so inimical to her. The Saw-Horse toppled over upon his back and lay with his legs waving helplessly above him. This was still more strangely evinced by those of their number, who, completely paralysed as it were, helplessly floated like water-logged dismantled ships on the sea. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of helplessly? Words that rhyme with helplessly What is the adverb for helplessly? What is the adjective for helplessly? What is the noun for helplessly? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Helpless helpless helpings helping out helping others helping hand helplessness helpline helplines helpmate helpmates help me 10-letter Words Starting With h he hel help helpl helple helples helpless helplessl