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Sentence count:145+7Posted:2017-03-28Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: powerfulSimilar words: peerlesspowerempowerpowerfulsuperpowerpower cutpowerhousewillpowerMeaning: ['paʊə(r)lɪs]  adj. lacking power. 
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91) As my hands were round the back of my two props, I was completely powerless to react.
92) Despite complaints about his suitability, officials said they were powerless to stop him because police had no evidence to ban him.
93) Shy but cordial friendships were struck up, which Mrs Thomlinson was powerless to prevent or subvert.
94) Now, though, she was even powerless to move, although he did not attempt to draw her against him.
95) The court is not however powerless to regulate its own proceedings in this area.
96) There is no point in raging against your circumstances if you are powerless to do anything about them.
97) Logically such constructions should make ethnic minorities feel even more powerless than they actually are.
98) Or perhaps he found traditional concepts so firmly entrenched that he was powerless to effect any radical overnight change.
99) This strategy in effect shifts blame from the affluent and powerful to the poor and powerless.
100) Libraries are powerless to relinquish them.
101) He stood for an hour, powerless to turn away.
102) His feeble arm dropped powerless down.
103) See how powerless is the human will against predestination!
104) They feel scared and powerless in conveyor-belt hospital wards.
105) He was sympathetic, but powerless to help.
106) That will leave thee powerless even to repent?
107) They said something that words were powerless to utter.
108) " I am powerless to go.
109) In his constant questioning, the broad interpretation of more and more fragile and powerless, and our original finally become familiar with the issue of strangers.
110) All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple- minded man as powerless in her clutches.
111) Despite its lack of formal power the nobility was not powerless.
112) Felling the frailness and powerless of life , you should believe it's happiness being alive .
113) In view of Natalie's and Dr. Jastrow's clear criminal record the Swiss would be powerless.
114) E : Explain to yourself what Stosny calls your "deepest core hurt" that lies behind the anger, such as feeling unlovable, disregarded or powerless.
115) Demagnetize that same piece of steel and it will be powerless to attract or lift even a feather's weight.
116) Powerlessness is a state of mind. If you think you are powerless, you are.
117) The first chapter is the foundation of higher mathematics section, but now that I have powerless.
118) The insect is powerless to move while the spider eats it alive.
119) The princess was powerless: when he beckoned to her,[http://sentencedict.com/powerless.html] she went to him like a lamb.
120) Generative Grammar provides an explicit analysis to English and Chinese double object construction, but is powerless before the Chinese ambiguity phenomenon of this construction.
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