How to Use hapless in a Sentence

hapless

adjective

• She plays the hapless heroine who is unlucky in love.
• For their part, the bad guys run a gamut from hapless to pure evil.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• In the meantime, the hapless bride must buy her own mitts.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 31 July 2020
• All the Colts had to do to make the playoffs was beat the hapless 2-14 Jacksonville Jaguars.
  — Matthew Vantryon, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Jan. 2022
• So the hapless Cleveland Browns would like to pick him.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Jan. 2018
• The problem for the hapless Rockies was that the Reds hit three homers to the Rockies’ two.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2025
• That costs him — and his hapless partners — tons of points.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
• While lying bloodied in the middle of the ring, a hapless Rhodes was slapped by Scott in the face.
  — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 Mar. 2025
• The Texans will say good riddance to 2017 with a winnable game against the even more hapless Colts.
  — Randy Harvey, Houston Chronicle, 29 Dec. 2017
• His absence was part of why the Leafs looked hapless in their own zone against the Bruins.
  — Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• There was a pair of chatty fish, too, and a hapless couple in a tiny dinghy.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
• There’s no real reason to rush him back against the hapless Hawks, owners of the worst record in the NBA.
  — Doug Norrie, SI.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• The next week, against hapless Northwestern, the Hoosiers roll.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 1 Jan. 2020
• What if the Bengals lose Sunday in Jersey to the hapless Jets?
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2021
• The hapless Knicks piled up 123 to open this current roadie.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2019
• Break the curse, beat a hapless Jacksonville team in the Florida sun and the Colts are headed to the playoffs.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2022
• The final scene in this dramatic play is the joint plunge to the surface to capture the hapless fish.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 9 Oct. 2017
• The dizzying pacing, the litany of hapless jokes, the all-out slapstick and the familiar shtick.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
• She’s accompanied by the very last dragon in the world: the hapless but kind Sisu.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2021
• Better to be miles above the ground for longer, than stuck hapless in a stuffy cabin, unable to take off.
  — Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2024
• Charlie Winshaw, the hapless new face of the franchise.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 10 Dec. 2021
• In no way does this mean that Kyle Shanahan and Co. can overlook a hapless Detroit team on the road.
  — Vincent Frank, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
• On Wednesday, Bryan Cranston, who played the hapless dad Hal on the sitcom, explained why.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2025
• What the hapless Kafka-esque hero is accused of, no one knows, and no one cares.
  — Charlie Fink, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Gulls and boobies darted down to gorge on the hapless creatures.
  — Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
• That’s what a loss to the hapless Washington Football Team will do to a fanbase.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 27 Oct. 2020
• The Chargers are not the hapless Jets, of course, but the Chargers do have the league’s worst run defense by giving up 162.5 yards per game.
  — Matt Youmans, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2021
• Meanwhile, Beau’s hapless lawyer is thrown from his balcony and smashed against the rocks below.
  — Vulture, 13 June 2023
• The offense looked hapless for much of it as the Tigers did just enough to beat a two-win Mississippi State team.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 13 Dec. 2020
• In a show of confidence the hapless Miami team could not muster, the also-feckless Pittsburgh Pirates claimed the infielder off waivers and added him to their 40-man roster.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025