What is "helplessly"

Usage examples of "helplessly".

Ryder was forced to throttle back and watch helplessly in horror and pity as the Ansar scrambled aboard and their bloody work began again.

Bullen first found himself in the water, then dragged from it into a canoe, and a moment later a helplessly bound captive at the mercy of an enraged foe.

Then, as I stood helplessly braceleted, Tup Ladletender roped the cheap beads about my neck.

Although he might be overoptimistic, this was deliberate, the sort of Churchillian policy that would keep people head-up into the wind, doing everything to defend themselves, rather than running helplessly before it.

He looked helplessly from one committeeman to another, his face chalk-white in the flickering light that danced across the ceiling from the reHecffon of the sun on the crinkled water of the Medway.

She helplessly waved a slim white hand at me, and even old Costula began to chuckle, and I could gladly have melted into the floor where I stood.

The current was swift and full of frightening drags and counterflows in which she was tugged helplessly one way and another.

He stared helplessly as the farthest cylinder from the crossarm began to roll down the wire toward Totenhausen.

I lost my grip on the deactivator chip and watched helplessly as it fell from my hand and rolled across the floor.

To Domini there was something pitiful in the sight of all these lads, uprooted from their homes in France, stumbling helplessly on board this ship that was to convey them to Africa.

Doctor Callixtus Fearnaught was passing a hand helplessly over his face.

I heard someone lean out above me, heard the slightest gasp, the thud of feet kicking helplessly against the garrote, then silence.

While the lights of Le Havre petrol refinery still winked on our right the waves were already coming off the Channel in twenty-foot-high walls of black water, shattering on the bow and wheelhouse and bouncing our small craft helplessly from crest to trough.

The creature had let him watch helplessly as his attraction towards Ismene was warped and twisted.

LAPD officers, Frank Curtis struggled to recover the semi-conscious body of Ray Richardson that was hanging helplessly at right angles to his own ropes beside the Mannesmann cradle.