He was bound in hopelessly by a chain of congratulations.
At first Sherman was the attacking party, but in his characteristic desire to scheme out his game many moves ahead, kept making slips, and at last had to give up, with his men nearly all gone and his king hopelessly cornered.
It contained a letter from Howard, saying that he had gone away, and that he hoped Sherman would forgive his treachery, but that he was hopelessly in love with Miss Leland, and that she returned his love.
Ill and despairing, he now abandoned the administration of his hopelessly involved estates to his brother François, who with the aid of an appointed council vainly essayed to bring order out of confusion.
The French were hopelessly outnumbered by the combined imperial and Italian armies and suffered a crushing defeat, and the Swiss soldiers whose pay had been stolen by the mother of François I returned to their own country after the battle.
If the race barrier be removed, and the individual standard of personal excellence be established, the twilight of this century will gather upon a nation hopelessly sinking in the mire of Mongrelism.
The great world is apparently hopelessly against her.
It was only gross ignorance that would have called them "hopelessly submerged half a century ago".
Now comes the question, in what position did this result of a mad theory and a hopelessly incompetent application of it on the part of Potsdam place our own Government?
I know that in this matter I speak for so sufficient a number of people that it will be quite useless and hopelessly dangerous and foolish for any expert-instructed minority to remain "tame.
In the meantime behold us again hopelessly outwitted by Eastern diplomacy as a direct consequence of this ill-starred outburst of hypocrisy about treaties!
And that one who, hopelessly mutilated, said to me: "It is not being crippled that hurts me; it is that I shall not be able to see the best part of the thing!
Past all human speculations about Christ, men hopelessly divided in creed are yet getting nearer to what He lived believing and died believing.
It is accused of faults that are hopelessly inconsistent with each other.
The map of streets which they had hastily sketched seemed hopelessly inadequate to guide them in and out of by-streets and around zigzag corners.
Now, if knowing how to buy a book is a part of complete living, then, in that blond presence, I was hopelessly adrift.
Both were in aprons, but the younger wore a dull green that set off her fair beauty to perfection, while the checked gingham of the other proclaimed a hopelessly downright taste.
Griffin, who was just behind her, winked solemnly at Patricia and then shook her head sadly, as if to indicate that the monitor was in her opinion hopelessly incorrigible.
At the second turn Wally was hopelessly outdistanced, and began to sob with fury, in anticipation of the last, long, terrible stretch.
He cast about desperately for some saving loophole, but found himself trapped--completely, hopelessly trapped.
She knew that among them all Johnny was her one ally--and a hopelessly distressed and ineffective one.
A barge lay here, hopelessly frozen on its way up the canal.
Being by this time hopelessly wakeful, he filled his pipe and sought the smoking-compartment of the sleeping-car.
In another minute we should have tumbled headlong into melodrama, with poor Mr. Wingfield hopelessly out of reach for the note-taking process.
The testimony as to whether the heroine of the powder feat was Betty Zane or Molly Scott is hopelessly conflicting; we do not know which of the two brothers Girty was in command, nor whether either was present at the first attack.
Footnote: It is most difficult to get at the number of the Indian parties; they were sometimes grossly exaggerated and sometimes hopelessly underestimated.
A smart skirmish ensued; but the whites were hopelessly outnumbered, and were soon beaten and scattered, with a loss of twelve or thirteen men.
All the Tennessee historians, down to Phelan, are hopelesslyin the dark over this campaign.
It was found indeed that such proceedings had hopelessly fouled certain camps, and the removal of the people to a fresh site was followed by the best results.
I contend only against the belief that one side is impeccable, and the other hopelessly barbarian.
They were dear, good women, but so hopelessly narrow and antiquated, with their little old-fashioned ideas of propriety, their distinctions founded on the conventional laws of the Neighborhood.
I realize more and more that I'm hopelessly behind the age.
Could anything be morehopelessly vulgar and grotesque?
The place seemed to her, as she drove through it that morning, so hopelessly common, so unusually prosaic.
He would pronounce her hopelessly light and fickle, he would never believe that she was capable of any deeper feeling.
The words sound in our ears with a melancholy close as we remember how hopelessly lost is almost every one of those poems that all Hellas loved and praised as long as the love and praise of Hellas was of any worth.
Our communications were fragmentary and sometimes obscure, but we rarely became "hopelessly stuck.
If we could only keep up our pace we might escape, but should a horse stumble, the harness give way, or the sledge overturn, we were hopelessly lost.
Midway between the station, we wandered from the route and appeared hopelessly lost, with the prospect of waiting until morning.
We were hopelessly stuck, and all our cries and utterances were of no avail.
As we entered the gorge darkness fell, the horses dragged more heavily, and it soon became evident that our Tyrolese driver was hopelessly drunk.
It is, however, more probable that the Cardinal Montalto treated her follies with a grudging parsimony; for we soon find the Peretti household hopelessly involved in debt.
Now the family that does not invade Europe at least every other summer is looked on as hopelessly old-fashioned.
Both agreed in denouncing the "Democratic and Republican parties as hopelessly and shamelessly corrupt, and, by reason of their affiliation with monopolies, equally unworthy of the suffrages of those who do not live upon public plunder.
But to show he was not hopelessly credulous, and to keep Hemingway from involving himself deeper, he hinted tactfully: "Maybe they noticed you came ashore with only one steamer trunk and no gun-cases.
He felt that the man who was loved by the girl he also had long and hopelessly worshipped was deserving of the highest consideration.
Of the foreign colony in Camaguay some fifty were Americans, and from the rest of the world they were as hopelessly separated as the crew of a light-ship.
Besides, Zora, with her large air of smiling dea ex machina was hopelessly out of tone with her mood.
Where slavery has become bred into the bone, the standard of the normal becomes reduced so tremendously that the average of normals, the majority, are hopelessly inferior.
The government ishopelessly corrupt, and there is no possibility of wrong being righted.
The guide had hopelessly lost his way, and after thirteen hours hard riding we were lucky to find this cosy nook in the tree-sheltered valley.
Then Margaret's face flamed in a wonderful glow of shame and happiness and pride that must have made the surrounding roses very hopelessly jealous.
Poor little ladies of the Orient, how hopelesslyyou would have wrung your henna-stained fingers!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hopelessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
