be hopeless
Example Sentences
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“Give it another 20 years. It will be a very different world. So, I’m not going to be hopeless about it or say it’s not happening. It’s happening,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2023
The oppressive sense of suffering all around her – as oppressive as wildfire smoke – spurs her to become a leader, taking action in what appears to be hopeless circumstances.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2020
With clear enough thinking, the replication crisis never needed to have happened because people would’ve realized that so many of these studies would be hopeless.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2018
You might think that it would be hopeless to try to detect a flash of visible light from a planet given the brilliance of the star it orbits.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
