Example Sentences

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Most public men and all lawyers have been appealed to by victims of this sense of injustice—the most unhelpable of afflictions in a society like ours.

From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Shaw, Bernard

She feared it was going to be something objectionable and unhelpable.

From The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Coolidge, Asenath Carver

If one half of the money that is spent trying to help unhelpable people was spent in helping the kind of families I refer to in the manner I describe, the results would be surprising.

From London's Underworld by Holmes, Thomas