Helplessness Definition

Helplessness Sentence Examples

• Losing a job generates feelings of helplessness, anger, frustration, and fear.

• As she walked, the fear and helplessness uncoiled, loosening their grip on her chest.

• She still felt that man's rough hands on her body and the sense of helplessness.

• He retreated to his cell and sat against the wall again, troubled by a familiar feeling of helplessness.

• Fear didn't dictate her mood—it was a sense of resignation and total helplessness, as if she'd been sucked into a black hole of bureaucracy where she'd remain forever.