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How to use the word hopeless in a Sentence?

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So low and hopeless are the finances of the United States, that, the year before last Congress was obliged to borrow money even, to pay the interest of the principal which we had borrowed before. This wretched resource of turning interest into principal, is the most humiliating and disgraceful measure that a nation could take, and approximates with rapidity to absolute ruin: Yet it is the inevitable and certain consequence of such a system as the existing Confederation.

William Richardson Davie

added by Normando
4 months ago

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

Aldous Huxley

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

It’s a lot of hopeless moments to go through, a lot of trials. But you know, it’s all worth it right now.

Maurice Hastings

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was known to walk among the people, he reached out to gang members; he reached out to the homeless; he reached out to the transients. He was the help of the helpless and the hope of the hopeless, and he knew that serving God meant serving man, especially the most vulnerable in our society.

Janice Hahn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It just seems like this country is really at a turning point. And if we can't win in an open seat in this kind of a year in Oregon, it just seems like we're hopeless. So I certainly hope that we can take back the House and win a lot of these competitive seats in a year like this.

Alek Skarlatos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I hope that people are sick of the inflation. I think they're sick of being the poorest congressional district in the state. I think they're sick of the rising crime rate, rising groceries and everything, it just seems like this country is really at a turning point. And if we can't win in an open seat in this kind of a year in Oregon, it just seems like we're hopeless. So I certainly hope that we can take back the House and win a lot of these competitive seats in a year like this.

Alek Skarlatos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm going to continue to do it until I could no longer do it, i refuse to be helpless. I refuse to be hopeless, and I refuse to give in.

Frank DeAngelis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

( I feel) anger, fury, rage. I feel despondent, helpless, hopeless, frustrated, but also it motivates me. It encourages me to help be a voice for people who can't be a voice and want to say these things, or can't say these things, like teachers.

Patty Murphy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We can provide hope to a child who feels hopeless, we can help them feel remembered when they feel forgotten. We haven't forgotten them.

Chris Thornhill

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is what you do if an animal were infesting your yard, the way people are being treated on that to me is absolutely more disturbing and a little bit more hopeless than I want to feel about this.

Sara Haines

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Even though things look hopeless right now in some areas, I haven’t lost hope. My hope is in God, it’s not in Washington, it’s in God.

Franklin Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They are devastated. They’re hopeless, considering the situation they’re in.

Farkhunda Muhtaj

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every line on this register that we have has a story, a story of family separation, of pain from the Korean War, these people feel disenfranchised and they feel very hopeless.

Michael Roh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I felt hopeless, it felt like I had nowhere to go because it's my family who was hurting me. I didn't know anyone who could really help me.

Antonette Acupinpin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As the PM said himself, Hancock's performance on testing, procurement, PPE [ personal protective equipment ], care homes etc was' totally f ** king hopeless,'.

Dominic Cummings

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It makes me feel hopeless, just now feeling like you can get back to providing, get back to normal.

Melissa Henderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They handcuffed me, drove me to jail, booked me, had me put in a cell. It was awful. It was embarrassing, it makes me feel hopeless, just now feeling like you can get back to providing, get back to normal.

Melissa Henderson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I felt hopeless and useless, it defeated me.

Wesley Hamilton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You’re hopeless as a dancer, you’re like a quarterback taking up ballet. Perhaps you could find work as a soda jerk.

Martha Graham

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Being married to Mike Friestlebein during these difficult times makes me believe that there is hope and there can be hope. I'm not hopeless.

Mauri Friestleben

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are not a hapless, hopeless race.

Burgess Owens

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Im so against anybody portraying that generation that didso much to raise such a great group of kidsto be looked at as hopeless and hapless, they would beput down and disgusted to be looked at as oppressed when we were victors.

Burgess Owens

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We shouldn't feel hopeless here and we know what works, we know that if we could, as Americans, agree to take those recommendations to heart, that we would keep our masks on when we're outside, we'd stay more than six feet apart from each other and we would avoid indoor gatherings where there's a big chance of spread, we wash our hands and all that, then we could implement what we know has worked.

Francis Collins

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation's response was hopeless ; if Yumi Hogan delayed any longer, Yumi Hogan'd be condemning more of Yumi Hogan citizens to suffering and death.

Yumi Hogan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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