helplessly
Example Sentences
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Helplessly, I thought of my own father, who died when I was 11, and those old emotions, stored away but never far off, took hold of me as if I were graveside.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2019
Helplessly attracted to each other, they flirted sadistically with reconciliation, but it always ended in tears or worse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2015
Helplessly cognizant, I formed mental scenarios while drifting in and out of sleep.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 24, 2014
Helplessly pinned under Chancer, Iyal resists, squawks and then relaxes, too.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2012
Helplessly, they watched the procession of specks move down the slope and disappear inside the city.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
