Pronunciation of hapless

Pronunciation of the English word hapless.

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Pronounce hapless in English


hapless in a sentence

# Sentence  
1. Dragons flew in the sky, raining down fiery death and destruction on the hapless villagers.
2. "Sychaeus was her lord, in happier time / the richest of Phoenicians far and wide / in land, and worshipped by his hapless bride. / Her, in the bloom of maidenhood, her sire / had given him, and with virgin rites allied."
3. Doomed to devouring love, the hapless queen / burns as she gazes, with insatiate fire, / charmed by his presents and his youthful mien.
4. But when in youthful arms came Priam near, / "Ah, hapless lord!" she cries, "what mad desire / arms thee for battle? Why this sword and spear? / And whither art thou hurrying?"
5. At his heels, aflame / with rage, comes Pyrrhus. Lo, in act to aim, / now, now, he clutches him, – a moment more, / e'en as before his parent's eyes he came, / the long spear reached him. Prostrate on the floor / down falls the hapless youth, and welters in his gore.
6. The black hole pulls the hapless star into its maw.

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