Sentence examples for hapless collection from inspiring English sources

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They can buy some coke wholesale and resell it and/or they can pawn off Warren's hapless collection of antique memorabilia -- toys from his childhood and other nerdy collectibles.

The Mets, a hapless collection of nomads, were managed by Casey Stengel, then seventy-one years old.

But no, he still gets about 30 calls a day: from drunks at bars, from the guy at the auto body shop in Odessa, Tex.; from Alyssa, 15, and her mom, Janice, on their way back from cheerleading practice in Morris County; from hapless collection agencies unlikely to ever get their money; from Leah, 13, in North Bergen whose friend Tyler told her to call; from bored cold callers who figure, why not?

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With its international cast of sweet, hapless characters, the collection "is as rich, complex and delicious as the islands themselves, boiling with humanity," Bob Shacochis said here earlier this year.

Poirier's new book, "Unsung Heroes of American Industry," is a slender collection of stories about hapless folks engaged in such quixotic pursuits as breeding worms, making pearl buttons and trying to please their parents.

By 2009 I was writing that his recent paintings were "momento mori for a reputation" (the hapless paintings Hirst showed at the Wallace Collection that year have thankfully been passed over here).

Although she seems to agree, Jessica immediately steals from the collection plate before forcing it back upon the hapless Bart.

Who, hapless youth?

A fond but hapless father.

Or not hapless I don't know.

"Hapless and helpless," he wrote.

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