How to Use hapless in a Sentence

hapless

adjective

• She plays the hapless heroine who is unlucky in love.
• Meanwhile, Beau’s hapless lawyer is thrown from his balcony and smashed against the rocks below.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• The hapless guard also got a tongue-lashing from my mother.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 May 2023
• Dismantling the hapless Colts, who fired coach Frank Reich the very next day, may not be a promise of more.
  — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
• Dafoe, Peter Sarsgaard and Emmanuelle Seigner are just a few of the hapless adults caught in their web.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 17 Aug. 2023
• Stranger Things Season 4 brought love, loss, and gore for our hapless Hawkins heroes.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 7 July 2022
• But this isn’t a column about a hapless husband who falls apart when he’s left to his own devices.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2022
• Over the weekend against the ill-fitting and hapless Los Angeles Lakers, the Cavs flipped the proverbial switch.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2022
• Hamm’s version is less cruel and more hapless than Chase’s.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 30 Sep. 2022
• This week, the G-Men get a hapless Patriots offense at home that have scored 17-or-fewer points in eight of the last nine games.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• At times, Rebecca, who managed the bar in the show, appeared to be a hapless and gold-digging mess.
  — Andrew Dalton and Alicia Rancilio, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Dec. 2022
• Just after the hour mark, Rodrygo ran deep from near the halfway line to fire the fourth past a hapless Paulo Gazzaniga.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• As the hapless target, Strong makes the most of his reserved character by seeming to do not much at all.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Sep. 2023
• That put the Spurs ahead by 20 over heretofore hapless Oklahoma City.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2022
• The Orioles comfortably won the first two games of their series with the hapless Chicago White Sox thanks to a bevy of late scoring.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2023
• There’s Zion, a mini-fridge on wheels, spinning through a hapless defense.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2022
• The Hoosiers showed their strength, at one point building a 17-point first-half lead against a defensively hapless Iowa team.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2024
• Juliette Porter's friendships with a hapless group of twenty-somethings are the focus of this MTV opus.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 30 Apr. 2022
• To which hapless viewers can only respond: Take us with you.
  — Ann Hornaday, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
• Santa Ana :: The Angels being put up for sale has to be only the first shoe to drop in taking a hapless team to a team worth watching.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• And for every $100 that a hapless tourist lost at the blackjack table in a haze of free booze, a mafia boss in Chicago or New York wanted his cut.
  — CBS News, 5 July 2022
• Stephen Silas' squad hasn't been totally hapless this season, but the growth many hoped for is thus far absent.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 11 Jan. 2023
• Very mild hilarity ensues, as Zoey proves hapless on the slopes, and in other ways doesn’t live up to her billing.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
• Hispanics are not the hapless victims of the Supreme Court’s decision that the Left needs for its narrative.
  — Garion Frankel, National Review, 6 July 2023
• The ball flicks the other way, and the hapless defender slips, or in an even more embarrassing outcome, falls.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2022
• And unlike last week, the questions will also extend to the offense that appeared hapless.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
• As the scene in question begins, the hapless pair have ended up in a low-key bar full of old archaeologists.
  — Catherine Bray, Variety, 14 July 2023
• The texture of the two is similar: a school year plus a summer, the same brilliant, hapless young woman trying to figure out how to live and make art.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
• At times, Rebecca appeared to be a hapless and gold-digging mess.
  — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
• By the time Maria and company see fit to start fleeing for an exit, chances are good more than a few hapless viewers will have beaten them to it.
  — Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024