helplessly

How To Use helplessly In A Sentence

• I was helplessly trapped in the cockpit with the aircraft lying on its starboard side.
• Their son watched helplessly as they vanished beneath the waves.
• Her Connie exudes calm confidence one second and is helplessly expressive the next. Times, Sunday Times
• There had to be a reason why he lost control and watched helplessly as his own body committed such an outrageous act.
• Vale watched helplessly as a series of explosions reduced the once-proud cruiser to a blackened derelict.
• And I, helplessly impaled upon it's keratinous trident! Grade A Twats
• Cold and hungry, they drifted helplessly towards the Arctic.
• He looks at her helplessly, then makes as if to say something.
• Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman And The Dragon
• It stood near the window; its thick trunk, barkless, with a rotten heart, prevented the light from entering the room; the bent, black branches, devoid of leaves, stretched themselves mournfully and helplessly in the air, and shaking to and fro, they creaked softly, plaintively. The Man Who Was Afraid