Sentence examples for be as helpless from inspiring English sources

"We wouldn't be as helpless if we had our passports," explained the same worker.

Harriet collapses in tears, and her mother apologizes, though she claims to be as helpless as Sweetie Pie: "Sometimes it happens, just like that".

Without the assistance of the copyright owner, the subject may be as helpless to hold back the tide of internet hits and re-publications as was King Canute against the waves.

This is the match that ignites the story of a criminal overlord who, without mercy or remorse, takes down one human being after another, many of whom, like the addicts he supplied, were as helpless as that burning man.

I was as helpless as a newborn.

The armed driver of the Brink's truck was as helpless as the rest.

He was as helpless as a pinball coursing in a tabletop machine.

She was as helpless as one whostands before the throne of God.

The patrolling vehicle and its crew of two were as helpless as everyone else.

He has made them aware that in most important things — war, love, death — we are as helpless as Walker.

And would any male contestant on "American Idol" dare to croon, as did the young Johnny Mathis, "I'm as helpless as a kitten up a tree"?