hopeless

Example Sentences

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This is not necessarily a hopeless situation, but it requires immediate action and sound legal guidance.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

After one too many summer months of hopeless applications, all I had was a job at a substitute-teaching agency, where I would be lucky to get work three days a week.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026

“Thanks for reading” was the suggested reply to someone who called me a hopeless loon and another guy who wondered why anybody would read my “dumb column.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2026

The quality of it was overshadowed only by Verstappen's even more impressive rise from a seemingly hopeless position at the end of the summer.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Men were now trudging away from the shapeups at the other slaughterhouses, looking dejected and hopeless.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield