hopeless
Example Sentences
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“If you’re feeling helpless, if you’re feeling hopeless, if you’re feeling betrayed, if you’re feeling frustrated, if you’re feeling angry — I mean, I know I’ve been,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
Abi, from Evesham, Worcestershire, has had cynophobia her whole life and has "never felt more trapped and hopeless" than she does right now.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026
After one too many summer months of hopeless applications, all I had was a job at a substitute-teaching agency, where I would be lucky to get work three days a week.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
Plus, the “Sing Sing” and “Euphoria” actor has advice for hopeless romantics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
When Zita, then thirty years old, saw the footage of him on television, she said: “It is not his beard. There is something bothering about his eyes. He is a hopeless, broken man.”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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