Read full poem →“Surrender, brave Frenchmen!”—
There at close of day with the battle hopelessly lost,
And hordes of men no longer the army
Dictionary Entry
In a manner showing no hope
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Common Phrases
lost hopelessly. hopelesslyinadequate hopelesslyconfused hopelesslydivided hopelesslyentangled hopelessly
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Poetry examples for “hopelessly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And struggle slacker -- but to prove
As hopelessly as I --
How many the fictitious Shores --
Read full poem →discouraged secular music, like other forms of art, in Scotland; and as
a result Scottish song had become hopelessly degraded in point both of
decency and literary quality. From youth Burns had been interested in
Read full poem →Circled with evil, till his very soul
Unmoulds its essence, hopelessly deformed
By sights of ever more deformity!
Read full poem →Circled with evil, till his very soul
Unmoulds its essence, hopelessly deformed
By sights of ever more deformity!