Alone, she let her hands drop helplessly.

When the little girl set him down, he mewed and held up arms that almost immediately dropped helplessly to his side.

He shrugged, spreading his arms and letting them drop helplessly.

But as the magnet came near the intruder, he lost power, and dropped helplessly to the floor.

Once safely aboard, he lay down in the inch of water at the bottom and dropped helplessly into sleep.

Hothan quivered; he dropped back helplessly, almost against the window.

Lucy raised one hand, let it drop helplessly.

The detective's arm dropped helplessly as a bullet struck his wrist.

The judge, dropping helplessly toward the wall, gained sudden fear that The Shadow's strategy had failed.

The animal dropped helplessly to the ground, writhing and snorting.