be hopeless

Example Sentences

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“Give it another 20 years. It will be a very different world. So, I’m not going to be hopeless about it or say it’s not happening. It’s happening,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2023

The oppressive sense of suffering all around her – as oppressive as wildfire smoke – spurs her to become a leader, taking action in what appears to be hopeless circumstances.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2020

With clear enough thinking, the replication crisis never needed to have happened because people would’ve realized that so many of these studies would be hopeless.

From Slate • Oct. 8, 2018

You might think that it would be hopeless to try to detect a flash of visible light from a planet given the brilliance of the star it orbits.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

I’d be hopeless in that ill-fitting pair that 13 assigned to me.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins