How to Use powerless in a Sentence

powerless

adjective

• I wish I could help you, but I am powerless in this situation.
• Forces that kept them poor and powerless.
  — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
• Wanda, powerless against her, has no choice but to go along for the ride.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
• Tethered to a drug that kept him alive, but powerless.
  — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Apr. 2026
• Turns out, our daughter was powerless against the white noise of the fan above the oven.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 16 Jan. 2019
• There is no more powerless group than children.
  — Vincent Turley, Hartford Courant, 21 Aug. 2025
• The system has been designed to keep us powerless, but that ends now.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
• The system has been designed to keep us powerless, but that ends now.
  — John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025
• The system has been designed to keep us powerless, but that ends now.
  — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
• Which is why central banks are powerless over where dollars go and in what amount.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
• Trump will do his utmost to remind them of their painful and powerless present.
  — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
• But this shift doesn’t leave people powerless.
  — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 2 Mar. 2026
• Schools are powerless to change the city's rents or make rules to regulate them.
  — Bethany Barnes, OregonLive.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• The team is as powerless to change what’s coming as the fanbase held hostage for the ride.
  — Robert Charles, Chron, 21 Apr. 2021
• Even the most law-abiding driver is powerless against its charms.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 6 Feb. 2023
• Grace had no weapons in the demo and was powerless in the face of the enemy.
  — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• But a powerless display sitting idly in a room does not rise to such a level.
  — Matthew Malec, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• Is Congress powerless to put a check?
  — CBS News, 28 June 2026
• Fans are powerless to a certain degree about the people that take over their club.
  — The Athletic Fc Podcast, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
• And the fact that the people involved in it sort of seem to feel somewhat powerless is strange.
  — Adam Grant, Esquire, 15 Sep. 2017
• This stirs up the resentment of women who put up with this in the past and felt powerless to act.
  — Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2017
• But the decision left the pumps powerless to move water through the pipes.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• Her parents comply with the new order, powerless in the face of big tech.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 June 2026
• Even so, Smith urges people not to feel powerless based on the study results.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2019
• Some local governments have tried to ease the pain for the powerless.
  — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• Across five films, Kersey became a stand-in for the man who refused to be powerless.
  — Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
• That’s how good Taylor was, and how powerless the Browns looked to stop him.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 20 Sep. 2021
• That approach makes sense in a district where Democrats have been powerless for decades.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 30 May 2018
• This season’s spread attack is off the field, of course, and all the coaches are powerless against it.
  — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 13 Nov. 2020
• There is no coach more powerless than the college basketball coach.
  — Mac Engel june 29, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026