Example Sentences

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Just as I haplessly accepted my fate days before the wedding, the flying public may have already missed its chance to break the cycle.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2025

Sexton linked with Bundee Aki, who spooked Sione Tuipulotu and Jones to such an extent that both of them haplessly went for him, leaving Ringrose free to put Keenan away.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023

Most commentators spoke as if the network set out to deceive its viewers, who just haplessly fell for the lies.

From Salon • May 16, 2023

As she haplessly misreads the townspeople she looks to for support, short chapters from many perspectives keep readers alternately laughing and gasping.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2022

In the field the wounded flying machine bounced haplessly over the unmown grass for thirty yards.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein