hopelessly

Example Sentences

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Hopelessly haunted by the devastation all around me, I find myself revisiting the rubble.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2022

“It hasn’t happened because it is broken. Not possible. Hopelessly fractured,” Nelson writes.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2021

Hopelessly surrounded, Cornwallis accepted defeat within a month and surrendered his entire army of 7,000 men on October 19, 1781.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Hopelessly, we drove around the suburb where the camp was.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2015

Hopelessly, round and round, a rotating sprinkler scattered lake water on Dr. Mason’s vegetable garden.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien