How to Use hopeless in a Sentence

hopeless

adjective
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  • We were the most hopeless group of golfers you ever saw.
  • He felt confused and hopeless after losing his job.
  • He's very ill, but his condition isn't hopeless.
  • For the next 11 games, though, Duarte's shot seemed to be a hopeless cause.
    — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2023
  • The irony, of course, is that Tess is the one who should feel hopeless coming out of that fight.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2023
  • But not taking those risks is a hopeless point of view to start from.
    — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In a world at war with the rat, a defense of the enemy might seem hopeless.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Hope may be the thing with feathers, but this bunch of feathers is hopeless.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
  • This Mitchell Rosenthal spent his life trying to help the helpless, give hope to the hopeless.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
  • There are no easy answers, but that doesn’t mean the future is hopeless.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And so on, until the unfinished stairs and the hopeless Piranesi both are lost in the upper gloom of the hall.
    — Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But the month of June is here to give you reminders along the way that you’re never too lost and your case is never hopeless.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Even when all might be lost in a hopeless desert of lifeless toxic sludge, the future feels bright.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The Joe Goldberg psyche — hopeless romantic who kills in the name of love — will not be new to fans of the series.
    — Karin Tanabe, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • What once emerged as a hopeless tangle now exits the dryer as—get this—an apron.
    — Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 25 Oct. 2023
  • To be fair, the Yankees did not seem so utterly hopeless through much of this season.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2023
  • But this isn’t the first time that Shakira, a hopeless romantic with an armored heart, pens a song for an ex.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Give them room enough to walk, a taste of life that isn’t bitter and hopeless, a glimpse of humanity that doesn’t fill them with dread.
    — Matthew Scully, National Review, 11 July 2022
  • Most often, people posted that this was the first good news after months of the hopeless horror of the current war.
    — TIME, 8 Jan. 2024
  • In The Passenger home is but way stations in hopeless transit.
    — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
  • Related: These hopeless Red Sox should be ready to trade players — but which ones?
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • As long as Vivienne was alive, in his view, the situation was hopeless.
    — Evan Kindley, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The start of spring training always brings hope to the hopeless, even when your team’s front office spent the last three months in hibernation.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Kline has spent more than a decade depicting the United States as bankrupt, hopeless, doomed.
    — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • At first, Marcus sees the team as hopeless, and who can blame him, given all the slapstick shtick Farrelly puts them through?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Mar. 2023
  • However, trying to pass block Judon with a running back is hopeless — kind of like the Colts offense.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Working toward a goal — in this case, winning a single game — makes all the losing feel less hopeless.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2022
  • When looking at it this way, the shift into a new career seems overwhelming at best, hopeless at worst.
    — Shelli Brunswick, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Workers of all ages are feeling more hopeless than ever.
    — Jennifer Moss, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
  • And trying to offer a long explanation about the details to the masses is hopeless.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Sep. 2023

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