HOPELESS in a Sentence

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For HOPELESS, below is one of 145 sentences:
As for the cottages of England--there they are--great plasterings of brick dwellings on the hopeless countryside.

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 Meanings and Examples of HOPELESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hopeless
 a.  feeling or causing despair about something
 a.  certain to fail
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  Although they had been so quiet since the first outbreak of the matter, that most people really did suppose it to have been abandoned as hopeless, nothing new occurred.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
2  Another suitor might feel jealousy while he touched this string; but my firm purpose cannot be changed by a passion so childish and so hopeless.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Clifford felt his father was a hopeless anachronism.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  A kind of hopeless affection he seemed to feel for her, and the essential remoteness remained the same.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  He was hopeless at the very core of him, and he wanted to be hopeless.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever quite love at all.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
7  For the rest, among the old trees was depth within depth of grey, hopeless inertia, silence, nothingness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
8  It made her feel immensely depressed and hopeless.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  As for the cottages of England--there they are--great plasterings of brick dwellings on the hopeless countryside.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
10  'Their lives are industrialized and hopeless, and so are ours,' she cried.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
11  But already Paris was full of Americans and English, strange Americans in the oddest uniforms, and the usual dreary English that are so hopeless abroad.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night rendered its further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with reluctance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  Anne had done; glad that it was over, and not absolutely hopeless of doing good.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  They were sick with horror, while he examined; but he was not hopeless.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
15  The head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries recovered from: he was by no means hopeless; he spoke cheerfully.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
Example Sentence:
1  The public transport system was absolutely hopeless.
2  A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure will turn to glorious success.
3  He gave way to hopeless grief as soon as he heard the bad message.
4  I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
5  The firm had to charge off the debt as hopeless.
6  We have to charge off the debt as hopeless.
7  Ian was a hopeless innocent where women were concerned.
8  The doctor said the old man's condition was hopeless.
9  At school I was quite good at arts, but hopeless at science.
10  I'd be hopeless at working for somebody else.
11  But to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.
12  The fishing lines had become hopelessly entangled.
13  I strayed a few blocks in the wrong direction and became hopelessly lost.
14  I'm no good at dancing - I always get hopelessly out of step.
15  By this time, he was hopelessly pickled.