I said it would go right to my head, and confuse me so that I would be in a helpless tangle in ten minutes.
Solitude is a certain condition of a helpless man.
For the man who is solitary, as it is conceived, is considered to be a helpless person and exposed to those who wish to harm him.
He continued thus speechless and helpless till the Thursday; when he resigned his life, on the seventeenth before the calends of May; and he was buried at Winchester in the old minster.
The old, the young, the beautiful and the helpless were remorsely devoured by the shoreless sea.
The storm might break over him again at any minute, and would find him almost as helpless as ever.
Gird yourself, then, for the fight, my young brother, and take up the pledge which was made for you when you were a helpless child.
The inexorable question pursues him even into the strange helpless land of dreams, demanding a decision, when he has no longer power of will to choose either good or evil.
Woe to the innocent and the helpless who lie in their path!
Left to myself I'd have been as helpless as a baby in this business.
Love and the salt sea, a helpless ship whirled into the hands of cannibals, desperate fighting and a tender romance.
Flett, staring up helpless and half stunned into the savage face of the foreman, gave up.
Miss Addams learned that most of the foreigners were ashelpless as this woman in finding anything to bring them pleasure.
When Clara was eleven years of age, her brother David had a terrible fall, and for more than two years he was a helpless invalid.
Finally he arose and slid his helpless prisoner through the skylight into the cabin and then lowered himself by the way he had emerged.
This cold-blooded slaughter of the helplesshorrified the rest of the world and did Germany’s cause an incalculable amount of harm.
The monster took a sudden plunge, and I saw a crowd still on her decks, and boats filled with helpless women and children glued to her side.
An undersea boat so entrapped is helpless to do anything but either sink or else empty her tanks and try to rise and surrender.
Austro-Hungarian government with an intention to permit its submarines to destroy the lives of helpless men, women, and children.
Up steamed the Cressy, her gun-crews standing by their useless pieces, splendid in helpless bravery.
The silence of the British Admiralty is explained by the standing orders forbidding the revealing of the whereabouts of any of his Majesty’s ships, particularly whenhelpless and disabled.
The most responsible positions are occupied by chronically fatigued individuals, and when nature extorts her rights we punish the helpless men.
She gazed upon the motley array in helpless horror.
I do what I can, but men are helplesswhen it comes to women.
Why, it is all he steers by; without it, he would be as helpless as a compass under the flare of Northern Lights; and he no doubt regards it as a mark of blood, the proof of his kinship with the preadamite family of the Saurians.
The alarmed father seemed to fear this, as he stood gazing, with agony depicted on his face--agony at the thought of seeing his dear boy exposed to such a fearful peril, and feeling himself so helpless to rescue him.
From trunk to trunk, the pursuers crawled through the underwood beneath, feeling as helpless as ever.
They would be crushed, helplessas flies in the grasp of a gigantic spider.
He had lost the satisfaction of killing Losson in the desired way: but here was a helpless body to his hand.
Is it the custom of the English to fire on a helpless ship'?
The Queen's look, as she turned it on Angele, apparently had in it what must have struck terror to even a braver soul than that of the helpless Huguenot girl.
As she stood helpless and confused, the Seigneur called hoarsely: "De la Foret--De la Foret!
The doctor had never forgotten Maddy as she was then, the very embodiment, he thought, of helpless purity.
He was utterly helpless for the time being, at the mercy of the three men who had kidnaped him, and the chauffeur, and whoever might be where they were going.
She was small and charming, not one of the helpless butterfly sort, but a woman who gave indication that she could care for herself if necessary.
It holds no chance for the man whom circumstances are pressing down, no chance for any of thosehelpless people who are reaching vainly upward, or those who would be reaching upward if their consciousness were roused.
Helpless to save himself, he stood motionless, erect, and watched Allen start from the room.
Perhaps the seizure itself was fatal; perhaps on the other hand the seizure was recoverable but while helpless he drowned.
Oh, I had a kind husband, and, helpless as I was, I tried to love once more.
As a son of Maryland, if he came helpless and penniless to me, I would not let this gentleman be sacrificed.
Too helpless to retort in any other way, yet in uncontrollable recklessness, she exclaimed, "They never shall see me hang, then!
Tell me now, conservatively, was not your ownhelpless childhood the cause of your mistakes, and does it never make you feel for other sparrow-birds like Hulda?
God forgive you for insulting a poor, sick, helpless girl in this wild swamp!
He too was very attentive to Lady Alice, but in a kind, fatherly way, as if she were a helpless creature under his care.
Should she be obliged to hand over the poor little helpless fellows to the reluctant guardianship of their irritable step-father?
There was nothing the matter with him, nothing unusual--only his old complaint, increasing years and infirmity; still he was not to be treated like a helpless baby.
She felt kindly and indulgent toward this gentle helpless creature, who seemed so many years younger than herself, though barely two, in fact.
Bilhane," said Mr. Newton, as soon as they had laid the helpless body on the bed.
The largest of the four galliasses loses her rudder, and drifts helpless to and fro, hindering and confusing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "helpless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
