Antonyms for helplesslyhelp·less·ly

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1. helplessly, impotently, unable to helpadverb

   in a helpless manner

   "the crowd watched him helplessly"

   Synonyms:
   unable to help, impotently

How to use helplessly in a sentence?

1. James Baldwin:

   We are all androgynous, not only because we are all born of a woman impregnated by the seed of a man but because each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other -- male in female, female in male, white in black and black in white. We are a part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.

2. Troy Vincent:

   Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

3. Jane E. Brody:

   Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

4. John Berger:

   Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

5. Peter Maurer:

   It failed as a humanitarian organization because it had lost its moral compass, it failed... by responding to the outrageous with standard procedures, it looked on helplessly and silently...

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