Many tried five diamonds, which was virtually hopeless.

Leading a diamond was virtually hopeless, for the defenders would surely be able to promote a trump trick.

Although she received treatments including chemotherapy, it was soon determined that her condition was terminal and virtually hopeless.

After a diamond lead, playing spades was virtually hopeless.

The method did not work well here, for the partnership reached a virtually hopeless six-heart contract.

Especially if the situation is virtually hopeless, and if the patient is young.

But by then the players had made Shostakovich's virtually hopeless landscape almost palpable.

Here he was with no future and a virtually hopeless present.

The Emperor managed to raise new armies, but strategically he was in a virtually hopeless position.

South won with the queen and faced a virtually hopeless task.