How to Use hopeless in a Sentence

hopeless

adjective

• We were the most hopeless group of golfers you ever saw.
• He felt confused and hopeless after losing his job.
• He's very ill, but his condition isn't hopeless.
• For the next 11 games, though, Duarte's shot seemed to be a hopeless cause.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Jan. 2023
• We’re supposed to bring light to a dark world and hope to the hopeless.
  — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 12 Jan. 2021
• Here are steps to hire the right one That’s not to say that things are hopeless.
  — Winnie Sun, CNBC, 19 July 2024
• The Wolverines might feel hopeless now, but the Browns shouldn’t.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 2 Dec. 2019
• The irony, of course, is that Tess is the one who should feel hopeless coming out of that fight.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2023
• And what a hopeless way to just lose your childhood to that.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2021
• The children, the mothers, the fathers, the shame of being filthy and hopeless and afraid.
  — Luis Alberto Urrea, Time, 2 Aug. 2019
• At the end of a seemingly hopeless year, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
  — Liberty Vittert, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2020
• But not taking those risks is a hopeless point of view to start from.
  — CBS News, 8 Mar. 2023
• Holbrooke soon grasped the hopeless nature of the task.
  — Thomas Powers, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• If not caring is the new hope in this day and age, well, Miss Val is hopeless.
  — Michael Angeli, Los Angeles Magazine, 18 Sep. 2017
• In a world at war with the rat, a defense of the enemy might seem hopeless.
  — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
• As if the long-term drought wasn't bad enough, ISIS has made the country's prospects even more hopeless.
  — John Wendle, Scientific American, 17 Dec. 2015
• Then the dynamic shifts as the case gets more hopeless.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
• If these strike you as the words of a hopeless romantic, good.
  — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
• But for me, my faith is what keeps me hopeful in times that feel hopeless.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• Does this mean the Eagles are in a hopeless spot Sunday?
  — T.j. Furman, Philly.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Hope may be the thing with feathers, but this bunch of feathers is hopeless.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 July 2022
• There’s your story of hope for what feel like hopeless times.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2020
• This Mitchell Rosenthal spent his life trying to help the helpless, give hope to the hopeless.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Nov. 2022
• Those games just feel hopeless now, with a proud alum flailing in his dream job.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 10 Oct. 2017
• There are no easy answers, but that doesn’t mean the future is hopeless.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• Things looked hopeless for the Gators when Kentucky stopped them on fourth-and-4 from the UF 48 early in the fourth quarter.
  — Edgar Thompson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• Like the single mother of three who was lying in bed, hopeless and on the verge of suicide.
  — Rosa Flores, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
• The hopeless woman grasps her head with one hand and checks her baby’s cheek with the other.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
• Marcus Hopkins has been trying to have his criminal record expunged for years, a process which left him hopeless.
  — Rebecca-Ann Jattan, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2025
• In a time when the suffering and seemingly hopeless prospects of America’s poor are known to all who have eyes to see, the only fig leaf available to hide the obscenity of this bill is the old partisan charge of waste, fraud and abuse.
  — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025