HELPLESS

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helpless adjectiv

1. neputincios, slab.

2. nevoiaş, lipsit de ajutor.

3. (despre stare etc.) disperat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

They wanted to live, they were helpless, like rats in a trap, and they screamed.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

They all four lay helpless on the floor, breathing heavily.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

When she reached the edge of the stream she stood helpless, looking to right and to left for some ford.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It made me so sorry that I could only say, in a foolish, helpless manner, “Pray, Agnes, don't! Don't, my dear sister!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She is helpless.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

White Fang was too helpless to defend himself, and it would have gone hard with him had not Grey Beaver's foot shot out, lifting Lip-lip into the air with its violence so that he smashed down to earth a dozen feet away.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The search required to find their pipes told plainly that they had been without tobacco a long time, and the old man's eagerness for the narcotic rendered him helpless, so that I was compelled to light his pipe for him.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

I am not helpless.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Suddenly his eyes opened, and became fixed in a wild, helpless stare.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“But how?” I asked, with a helpless shrug.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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