hopeless

Example Sentences

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Is this a hopeless situation that we should simply accept and walk away from?

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 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

“Thanks for reading” was the suggested reply to someone who called me a hopeless loon and another guy who wondered why anybody would read my “dumb column.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026

"Nothing's come of it. It's kind of leaving this hopeless feeling, where you almost just think you're gonna check every day and never see anything," Long, the content creator, said.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Some of the rats were really hopeless climbers in Cluny’s estimation.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques