How to use "hopeless" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "hopeless" in popular movie and book plots

  • Caesar berates Jonathan for being a hopeless "clod", but has a solution to his money woes: burglary.  - Caesar and Me
  • The road was a hopeless quagmire and nothing could be discerned there.  - The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
  • Geralt tells Ciri about the roses of Aelirenn, an elf who died leading elven youths to fight the humans in a hopeless attack.  - Blood of Elves
  • The Project operates on hopeless cases from psychiatric wards, and "prison-volunteers" who would otherwise be executed.  - The Simultaneous Man
  • All seems hopeless when he is blinded and thinks that he will not see the Messiah.  - The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd
  • Unable to restore communications, Grant is unable to warn the remaining ships of these findings, and they are left to fight a hopeless battle.  - Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
  • The men continue hiking up the mountain due to Croft’s orders, even though many men view it as a hopeless cause.  - The Naked and the Dead
  • Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy and hopeless male chauvinist.  - A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
  • In Bern, Smiley learns that, like Kirov, Grigoriev is untrained in spycraft and hopeless at concealment.  - Smiley's People
  • Dr B helps the chess enthusiasts in managing to draw their game in an almost hopeless position.  - The Royal Game
  • The novel starts out in the seedy milieu of bars where prostitutes mingle with the hopeless flotsam that the war left behind.  - Three Comrades (novel)
  • She begins to pity her captor, comparing him to Caliban in Shakespeare's play The Tempest because of his hopeless obsession with her.  - The Collector
  • One flopped-back prisoner, June (Olive Deering), kills herself given the hopeless situation.  - Caged
  • The Greek tragedian Euripides is notorious for using this plot device as a means to resolve a hopeless situation.  - Plot device
  • She is so consumed with writing the story that she hardly notices as Bruce realizes his cause is hopeless and returns to Albany.  - His Girl Friday
  • The next day, Denethor orders Faramir to ride out and continue the hopeless defence of Osgiliath against a horde of orcs.  - The Return of the King

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