"helpless situation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where a person feels unable to make a decision, take action, or is otherwise in a state of powerlessness. For example, "Sam was in a helpless situation when he was laid off and couldn't find a new job to support his family."
No doubt they are chuckling over our helpless situation in Vicksburg".
Since females are in an especially helpless situation during copulation, they are particularly wary about bodily contact.
"Water is still on the rise, and we are in a helpless situation," said Muhammad Usman, a district administrator.
Being able to blame the fairies when in a helpless situation afforded people a certain sense of agency, Kent says.
One summer morning when I was 17, I begged my mother to get me out of India – where I was born – and out of my helpless situation.
"We will demand appropriate explanations from those countries that submitted to North American imperialism and briefly put President Morales in such a helpless situation," Sacha Llorenti, the country's ambassador to the UN told state radio Patria Nueva.
But what I mainly witnessed was the unit responding to a range of helpless situations, from suicide threats, to people wandering naked down main roads, to frightened partners of drunk and angry men.
She often felt helpless in situations like this.
The younger writer, despite displaying the compassion for his characters that has persisted throughout his career, was undoubtedly more willing to place the helpless in cruel situations where their timidity is ruthlessly exploited.
And the tall, bright chimpanzee felt therefore repeatedly humiliated and repeatedly helpless, in a situation for which there was no solution, no way to work at the problem.
Murasaki being frightened and helpless in this situation recites the following waka: On the fiftieth day how should one number those that follow?
