How To Use Helplessly In A Sentence
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I was helplessly trapped in the cockpit with the aircraft lying on its starboard side.
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Their son watched helplessly as they vanished beneath the waves.
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Her Connie exudes calm confidence one second and is helplessly expressive the next.
Times, Sunday Times
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There had to be a reason why he lost control and watched helplessly as his own body committed such an outrageous act.
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Vale watched helplessly as a series of explosions reduced the once-proud cruiser to a blackened derelict.
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And I, helplessly impaled upon it's keratinous trident!
Grade A Twats
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Cold and hungry, they drifted helplessly towards the Arctic.
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He looks at her helplessly, then makes as if to say something.
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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
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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
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His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading.
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And in that time, in a large cage of concrete and iron, Ben Bolt had exercised and recovered the use of his muscles, and added to his hatred of the two-legged things, puny against him in themselves, who by trick and wile had so helplessly imprisoned him.
CHAPTER XXXIII
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Jenny had to look on helplessly as her tiny son was weaned off the effects of heroin.
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It's almost amusing, until one of them sinks into a pool of oily sludge and wings greased, struggles helplessly to get free as the others fly off.
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The typical Czech "greengrocer" - Havel's famous description of the symbolic Czech Everyman - did not believe Soviet propaganda, but felt helplessly enmeshed in it.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Gardner and teammates watched helplessly as the final six seconds ticked off the clock.
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Nor do we taint John Le Carre's understated brilliance with the unpalatable thought that Jeffrey Archer is forever trying helplessly to write in roughly the same genre.
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Soon everything was on fire and she watched helplessly as her skin blistered and burned.
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I clenched my fists helplessly and struggled back to a sitting position, thinking unprintable thoughts.
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Each day tens of thousands of parents around the world watch helplessly as their children die from illnesses that can be easily treated with medications that cost only pennies, but which are out of reach to the impoverished.
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Lake Ahquabi, where I did all my formative swimming and sunburning, may not have the romance of Cape Cod or the grandeur of the rockribbed coast of Maine, but then neither did it grab you by the legs and carry you off helplessly to Newfoundland.
I'm A Stranger Here Myself
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this helplessly unworldly woman
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An instant later Du Mont, who was in the lead, leaped swiftly backward and, crashing into the heavier and clumsier Xavier bowled him over into the snow, where both wallowed helplessly, held down by Xavier's heavy pack.
The Gun-Brand
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Infuriated residents watched on helplessly as lorry loads of human waste sludge was dumped within 40 metres of their homes last weekend.
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She drifted helplessly along in calm water at just over three knots, making it virtually impossible to assess her sailing characteristics.
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I couldn't find any words to say, and instead gestured helplessly.
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Unable to swim, he watched helplessly as the child struggled desperately in the water.
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She shrugged helplessly at him as she pulled on the guy's coat but stopped short when she read the name boldly printed in curving letters: Brad.
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One of my sisters-in-law, a former pro photographer, took my author photos and made me giggle helplessly as she did it, instead of freezing up with my most camera-shy grimace.
The scary bits at SF Novelists
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Three sharp raps at the door interrupted his speech and Ben looked helplessly to Marie.
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No, sir, if Brother John _or you either, _ should drink one drop of the liquors mentioned and be expelled therefor, you would both be helplessly beyond the pale of the lodge, even though you had _both taken the obligation a thousand times!
Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective
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The van was seemingly abandoned by police – no officers were inside as protesters started to vandalise it, and police looked on helplessly from around 50 metres away as activists climbed onto the roof, smashed windows, spraypainted its sides and, at one point, threw a smoke bomb inside.
Second day of student protests - how the demonstrations happened
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The crux is that when these young men encounter resistance beyond the family for the first time - when they don't get into university or college, for example - they react helplessly and destructively.
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His stricken plane floats helplessly through the azure sky.
Times, Sunday Times
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He laughed, teasing me, and I watched helplessly as the last drop of milk dribbled into his cereal bowl.
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And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Roman Colosseum to rubble.
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But they were silent in amazement and expectation when they saw the mighty white ape wriggle upon the back of their king, and, with steel muscles tensed beneath the armpits of his antagonist, bear down mightily with his open palms upon the back of the thick bullneck, so that the king ape could but shriek in agony and flounder helplessly about upon the thick mat of jungle grass.
The Beasts of Tarzan
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Her Connie exudes calm confidence one second and is helplessly expressive the next.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are helplessly adrift and our current location is unknown.
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Their oddity is that Lombardi's craftsmanship is so exquisite that one senses him helplessly luxuriating in the very complexity that he claims to find so suspicious.
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But the sub-text in all affirmative action debates is the fallacious belief that blacks selected to benefit from it are hopelessly and helplessly genetically inferior -- that their DNA is chromosomally deficient, if not defective.
Irene Monroe: Theory of Blacks' Intellectual Inferiority Rears Ugly Head at Harvard
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Padlin stared helplessly at his drawing, at his maladroit strokes.
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The Islanders got the first goal 4: 31 into the first with a fluky goal when Penguins goalie Ty Conklin misplayed the puck on a clearing attempt in the left-wing corner and was forced to watch helplessly as Andy Hilbert collected it and fed Comrie for his 15th goal of the season.
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When another student floundered helplessly before some elementary matter of grammar, Sabour handed over his notebook and explained the point.
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What will they do when they stand before God's holy throne and watch helplessly as, one by one, many of their sheep are condemned because they were never confronted about their sins?
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The old lady was helplessly bedridden but was nursed to health by this caring neighbour.
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Unable to swim, he watched helplessly as the child struggled desperately in the water.
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Through blurred eyes he watched helplessly as the bike skidded across the ground towards the tanker, sending a shower of sparks shooting up into the cold air as it scraped along the surface of the road.
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An instant later Du Mont, who was in the lead, leaped swiftly backward and, crashing into the heavier and clumsier Xavier bowled him over into the snow, where both wallowed helplessly, held down by Xavier's heavy pack.
The Gun-Brand
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Shrugging helplessly, they wrapped him up in a red blanket and bundled him into the ambulance.
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It gave way beneath her, she fell and then rolled helplessly down the aisle.
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helplessly inebriated
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Suddenly, we were drifting helplessly between two vast gin palaces.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inside her head Allie stared into the darkness helplessly and saw the three prowling, amorphous figures.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Beautiful slaves, silked for a man's pleasure, perfumed for his delight, eager, needful, helplessly responsive, trained to please in a thousand modalities?
Magicians of Gor
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We had somehow got one of our mooring ropes entangled in the propeller of the boat, we had no engines, and we were drifting helplessly.
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I watched helplessly as a small splash of milk issued from the jug and landed in the bowl.
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Now, of course, now that she had been freed of the psychological chains, the confining restrictions, the imprisoning inhibitions of the free woman, I had little doubt that she, and perhaps even soon, would prove to be a helplessly arousable, helplessly yielding slave, a joy both to herself and her masters.
Cinnamon Roll
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She had to listen helplessly for an hour as her sons were gassed in the back of a car by her estranged husband.
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We all watched helplessly as the beast flew above us.
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The US citizenry is helplessly (and for the most part, blindly) accepting whatever edicts are brought down "from on high" because they ~all~ now contain significant references to terrorism and Security of the Homeland; as a result, no one is even noticing!
Who's watching the Watchmen
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Her family were heartbroken as they watched helplessly as she slipped further into the seedy world of drugs and vice.
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On the steps I stood still and looked round: long storm-clouds were creeping heavily over the grey sky; a dark-brown bush was writhing in the wind, and murmuring plaintively; the yellow grass helplessly and forlornly bowed down to the earth; flocks of thrushes were fluttering in the mountain-ashes among the bright, flame-coloured clusters of berries.
The Jew and other stories
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It moved in inexorably like a flood tide, washing over the barriers, filling the hollows till he floated helplessly in its eddies.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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The White- cowled Elder slowly looked around, and said to his audience, "Because all of you are helplessly stupid, I engaged him in conversation in order to reveal to you the truth about this matter!
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In one scene, road-side looters steal from a family at knife-point, while the father looks on helplessly, arms raised in surrender, repeating "God is great.
Finding Missing Persians
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The poison excreted by the bacilli is the diphtheria bacilli's dangerous weapon against the human being, without which weapon they would be delivered over helplessly to the natural prophylactic power of the living human organism.
Emil von Behring - Nobel Lecture
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Resplendent in white gloves and peaked cap, the traffic policeman watched helplessly.
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Unable to break free from the crushing weight of six kegs, The Rock had no choice but to lie there helplessly while Mankind scored the pinfall.
WWE Championship
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But not as sick as Vicky, who every morning now staggered up to retch helplessly into the slop bucket.
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They all minded themselves helplessly as they stirred with talks of gossip, death, and pets.
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A child and his father watch helplessly as the Bhagirathi waters slowly devour Old Tehri town.
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Her mother's voice broke helplessly, and she blinked rapidly, pulling her daughter in for a tight embrace.
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We had somehow got one of our mooring ropes entangled in the propeller of the boat, we had no engines, and we were drifting helplessly.
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May watched the mer-woman helplessly, wrung with pity and cursing her terrible fate.
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A no-doubt dangerously obtained close-up of a group of children showed them huddled together, some coughing uncontrollably, others retching helplessly, great running sores on their faces, virid blood running from their noses or flecking their parched lips.
CATALYST OF SORROWS
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The man could no longer lift either arm and could only sit helplessly.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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I was bewitched by Claire, instantly, helplessly.
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The man could no longer lift either arm and could only sit helplessly.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The stranger looked very unsettled by this, and just glanced around helplessly for a moment.
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The Indians improvised breastworks on nearby hillsides and fought back but could only watch helplessly as soldiers burned tepees, blankets, and sacred objects, destroyed tons of dried buffalo meat, and seized 750 ponies and a thousand buffalo robes.
Between War and Peace
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There, for 20 years, she had watched helplessly as that country's wildlife was systematically hunted to extinction.
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He could only watch helplessly as the car plunged into the ravine.
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A journey back from the shop for two young Sligo town boys ended in one of them getting struck by a car while the other watched on helplessly.
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Nobody noticed the Vietminh agents who had joined the procession too, and that night as the main Communist battalion moved through the passes in the calcaire, into the Tonkin plain, watched helplessly by the French outpost in the mountains above, the advance agents struck in Phat Diem.
The Quiet American
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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
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Now that I found out he was an upstanding and respected police officer, I felt so helplessly worthless.
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Pale, trembling in every limb, and spattered with the vulture's blood as well as that which trickled from the many wounds he had received, the valiant young cragsman sank helplessly to the ground, where he lay for some minutes, paralyzed with the terrible exertion he had gone through.
Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
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I choked helplessly as the need for air became dire.
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This world is thick with De Boursy-Williamses, throwing in bromides with a liberal hand, ungrudging of strychnine, happily at home with quinine and cathartics, ready at a case of simple rubeola; hideously, secretly, helplessly perplexed between the false diphtheria and the true; treating internal cancer and fibrous tumours as digestive derangements for happy, profitable years, until the specialist comes by, and dissipates with a brief examination and with half a dozen trenchant words the victim's faith in the quack.
The Dop Doctor
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It is a voluptuousness only the novel knows, and the elusive grail we poor scribblers helplessly chase.
An Interview With Cynthia Ozick
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And so she was committed -- the more helplessly for her dense misintelligence of both sides of the question -- to the policy of conciliating the opposing influences which had so uncomfortably chosen to fight out their case on the field of her poor little existence: theoretically siding with her husband, but surreptitiously, as he well knew, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, who were really defending her own cause.
The Fruit of the Tree
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The change is palpable from the helplessly childish response to Horowitz’s polemical ad in the Brown Daily Herald arguing against reparations in 2001 to a frank and reasonably respectful debate between college Republicans and Democrats prior to the presidential elections of 2004, to a nonsensational welcome for Rick Santorum at a campus lecture last year where many disagreed with him forcefully, but through the prism of rational discourse.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Brown University Welcomes Duke Rape Case Victim:
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He laid helplessly on the ground, reaching in Taylor's direction.
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Cold and hungry, they drifted helplessly towards the Arctic.
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In that same year, Cathedral City, California watched helplessly as its 'old' Wal-Mart closed, and a new super Wal-Mart held a ribbon-cutting in the neighboring community of Palm Springs.
Al Norman: The End of EZ Money in California?
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Men are demons, helplessly fallen, cursed by fate, cast into eternal perdition by their love... for the daughters of men...
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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Many companies have watched helplessly as their stock prices fell.
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Will my cover-drive still leave the off-side fielders rooted helplessly to the ground as the ball speeds to the boundary?
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Big carp, even bigger buffalo and hundreds of panfish flopped helplessly in the pasture's tall fescue and dried up cow patties.
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His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading.
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Twice, after tortuous effort, squirming and twisting, he failed in breasting the big trunk, and on the third attempt, after infinite exertion, he cleared it only to topple helplessly forward and fall on his face in the tangled undergrowth.
CHAPTER 23
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Big carp, even bigger buffalo and hundreds of panfish flopped helplessly in the pasture's tall fescue and dried up cow patties.
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We slid helplessly down the slope.
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The ultimate nightmare of almost every man is to witness helplessly the rape of his wife.
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The fisherman said helplessly:"But if I don't stir the water I would not get the fish and would be starved to death.
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We clung helplessly to the upturned optimist until rescued by the instructor with a motor boat.
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Helplessly we watched our house burning.
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Extending my arm swiftly causing his body to careen helplessly over some empty tables and land in a heap, brought closure to the altercation.
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But don't you also hate her a little bit, for being so stupid and helplessly cowlike?
Archive 2007-04-01
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Instead of standing there helplessly until the end of the performance, seize the initiative and act quickly.
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Turning away to look helplessly at Kaethe, he inched sideways along the wall like a retreating crab.
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Cross-currents can sweep the strongest swimmer helplessly away.
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the crowd watched him helplessly
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On the current of the hilltop breeze, while Linus stood helplessly, his poupe was blown from his reach.
The Forgotten Garden
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It just depresses me that so many people waste so much time bleating inanely and helplessly when there are lives to go out and live.
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It twirls helplessly in the centre of the bath, quickly loosing more and more of itself, bubbling, frothing, and disappearing.
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Lowering his spear-point the Maharajah bent forward in the saddle; but at the last moment the pig "jinked," that is, turned sharply at right angles to his former course, and bounded away untouched, while the baffled sportsman was carried on helplessly by his excited horse.
The Jungle Girl
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Many watched helplessly as their life savings were flushed down the drain.
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Several blackened prisoners were carried out helplessly on stretchers; they lay dying in front of us in the cold.
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This, tribunes, is what you call protecting the plebs, exposing it to be helplessly butchered by the enemy!
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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On one glorious windy afternoon, just as school let out, a coalhouse only two alleys away caught fire, and the fire truck that came clanging stuck fast and stood helplessly roaring, smothered in children, while two women in housecoats put out the fire with water from their mop pails.
The Dollmaker
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Putting her characteristic feverish intensity in the service of the medical fads of her day, she once again strikes the note to which her contemporaries vibrated, and to which we ourselves may helplessly, if somewhat more mutedly, respond.
Catacomb Efreet
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He was beaten until he lay writhing helplessly on the ground, whereupon his captors doused his body with kerosene and set it ablaze.
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Helplessly, he would manipulate every sesquipedalian word he encountered until he had wrung all possible combinations out of it.
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The originator of the new sect was a certain Gregory, a nephew of the leading Calixtine preacher, Rokyzana, whose mind was imbued with the conviction that the Roman Church was helplessly and hopelessly corrupt.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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A single police constable posted at the multiplex watched helplessly as the mob struck.
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The man could no longer lift either arm and could only sit helplessly.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The sword sagged in his grip as he flailed helplessly, trying to fend off the next attack.
The Misenchanted Sword
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Somewhat nervous about an unauthorized guest, but helplessly outranked, Captain Thompson relented. “Aye, Admiral, it would be my pleasure, †he said with a forced smile.
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A quick rush of embarrassment flooded to the Majors cheeks and he smoothed helplessly at the lap of his crimson, clematis-covered housecoat with hands that felt like spades.
Excerpt: Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
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Suddenly, we were drifting helplessly between two vast gin palaces.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the battlements above, Jonat - helmet gone, sword dulled - watched helplessly as the Vagrians swept over the ramparts.
Waylander
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Many watched helplessly as their life savings were flushed down the drain.
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“But Alan Dell is my brother-in-law,” protested the homecomer helplessly.
Coroner's Pidgin
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Their son watched helplessly as they vanished beneath the waves.
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Gardner and teammates watched helplessly as the final six seconds ticked off the clock.
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You may recall that for years the chancellor was helplessly in thrall to Prudence.
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Cold and hungry, they drifted helplessly towards the Arctic.
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He slithered helplessly down the slope.
