helpless

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• As the pandemic and the rising casualty count dominated the news, people trying to avoid the virus have remained isolated at home, feeling helpless.

• Leaf-cutting worker ants might look like they’d be helpless against an enemy soldier ant many times their size.

• We didn’t realize it was a long journey until we realized how helpless we were.

• To respect their wishes, I sat in the parched grass and waited, feeling helpless.

• Looking at that newspaper in the middle of the American desert, I wondered whether it was now my turn to know familial loss and feel helpless.

• “It's insane to see what the extreme version of that type of helpless anger combined with mental illness can create,” Cook wrote.

• “No, the church has to be on the side of the most disadvantaged, of the poorest, of the helpless,” the padre tells us.

• He saves the helpless from burning buildings and puppies from untimely deaths.

• I feel helpless at moments because I do not know how to help the people who lost their families and friends.

• At the stage when you are a helpless baby, Mom is, literally, everything.

• The fingers of all the clocks in the house were revolving with the most extraordinary rapidity--she was helpless.