Sentence examples similar to helpless surface from inspiring English sources
When Wells, the father of modern science fiction, published his first novel, "The Time Machine," in 1895 (the newfangled genre was then known as "scientific romance"), he sent his time traveler to the year 802,701, to a post-apocalyptic terrain in which the upper classes had evolved into beautiful, helpless surface-dwelling innocents who served as food for a foul underground horde.
I came back from Colombia to find Christopher Hitchens everywhere on the Web in the same position: prone, on a raised flat surface, helpless, humiliatingly exposed, with specialists standing over his mound of a belly, doing unspeakable things to him.
It's visible from a distance, and the much larger females are attracted, fly in, and are grabbed and inseminated; then, while the males fly off to die in the grass, the females head back to the water to lay their eggs – they're now known as spinners, from their spinning, egg-laying flight – and eventually collapse, spent and helpless in the surface film.
Beating against the transparent surface of a one-way mirror, helpless.
She was helpless; he was helpless.
