Sentence Examples

1. He was inconsolable, barely coherent, and unable to respond to any of her questions, leaving her feeling more lost and helpless than she could have imagined possible.
2. I could flip through their memories, searching for something specific, rather than being helpless and only seeing whatever popped up.
3. He was useless, helpless to save Cera, to save himself.
4. Silas always asked Ed if he was drinking animal blood too, or if it was human blood, that it had come from a hospital, not a helpless victim.
5. The grotesque monster leapt into the swirling portal, Evan helpless in his arms, helpless against whatever lay in the demonic depths ahead.
6. Helpless tears threatened to intrude, but I furiously blinked them away.
7. He would have crushed the first buffaloes, no doubt, with the cow-catcher but the locomotive, however powerful, would soon have been checked, the train would inevitably have been thrown off the track, and would then have been helpless.
8. Jack swallowed hard as he watched, helpless, as Richard began to lose the last of his strength, blood running from the wound.
9. I was helpless to stop the first strangled sob, or the second.