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    Use "lose" in a sentence

    lose example sentences

    lose


    loses


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    1. If you’re trying to lose weight, you're interested in it


    2. until you have the number of pounds that you want to lose, in this case, twenty pounds


    3. Each time you lose a pound you can mark it as completed


    4. may have created a step like, lose 1 pound, and you continued adding in


    5. that step for as many pounds as you want to lose


    6. If your goal is to lose twenty pounds, please don't drive around the parking lot wasting those minutes looking for the closest parking spot


    7. When people become sedentary, they lose the natural visceral mobilization provided by functional exercise


    8. When you lose that sense, the


    9. Without your ability to deliver the products instantly you will definitely lose sales


    10. As damage to the brain increases, people with Alzheimer's lose coordination and part or all of their ability to attend to everyday needs

    11. Fortunately for the people of Jerusalem, an archer spotted Blitzer fired an arrow into his shoulder, causing him to lose his grip and fall


    12. ‘He’d lose his temper with you?’


    13. After a mile or so, David began to lose all feeling in his feet and hands


    14. He wondered if he should go to the council with this question? That would certainly expose everything of Tahlmute's past and doing that would likely lose him the job


    15. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion


    16. "I don't want to lose you too baby


    17. Reluctantly, no longer able to avoid the issue, my thoughts turn back to the events of the evening … it had been kind of Stephen to offer me accommodation like that … why, oh, why did I have to lose my temper? I shouldn’t have bitten his head off like that


    18. Oh what have I got to lose?


    19. He very powerful now, but need to use quickly or lose the power


    20. It is easy to bustle around and to lose full dependence on the

    21. Keep your fucking nose out of this or you will lose your job


    22. ‘It’s not as bad as it looks, Liz, you could easily lose that bit if you wanted to, though probably not in time for Saturday night


    23. Did you know that it is becoming quite common to lose these things in other parts of the world?"


    24. " He ducked outside the shop and left Travis to mull over what he had already revealed, what he had to gain or lose by telling more


    25. But we can lose it if we lead a sinful way of life


    26. He tried to lose himself


    27. There would be nothing left to lose


    28. You don’t know when one of these guys is gonna lose it


    29. People will lose their souls (the ones who need the gospel and those who have had it but erred from it) (6:20-21)


    30. lose the souls of our children

    31. So you see, I had to allow you experience loss, to feel what it's like to lose what you love the most


    32. That was certainly a clear insinuation about me too; and I, as usual, kept on acting the fool lest I should lose that great friend


    33. Those who are poor and bold inevitably make bad investments and eventually lose their money


    34. Not to mention, I really can't afford to lose anything else


    35. For the time being, he kept this problem from Elond, and she seemed to lose interest in the hostile starship as the local years went by


    36. We all lose a loved one at least once in life


    37. If it is dry or uncultivated, you will lose money


    38. Leaves: If they are green and fresh, they portend happiness; if they are withered, you will lose hope


    39. If you lose treasure, you will face financial problems


    40. If you lose a wheel of your car, you will quarrel with a family member

    41. When we lose ourselves for hours doing something


    42. If we do not have the appropriate wisdom for those moments we will not just lose life, but will also profane the eternal glory of God and mare His image


    43. She stood there panting, hoping she wasn't about to lose control of herself and run


    44. daughter she had lost and found only to lose her again


    45. Now the land is in your possession, and it is your responsibility to not lose the family land


    46. "The fastest way to lose love is to hold on too


    47. He fervently hoped that none of those things had happened, he just couldn't bear to lose them


    48. They lose it when they fail to find a rider, and go mad instead


    49. If he hasn't found a way to catch at least one of us in a few hours he'll lose interest


    50. His hair had come lose and some was splayed across his face














































    1. Kevin jerks the wheel and loses traction a bit before his car slides off the road


    2. He loses consciousness


    3. He loses consciousness as he hears the man barking military commands behind him


    4. doubt, the point where the prey loses its fear of those mesmerising eyes and runs for


    5. One never loses if he deals with people in loving


    6. This was the instant of doubt, the point where the prey loses its fear of those mesmerising eyes and runs for dear sanctuary, but in that instant when Lucy felt that she might regain control of her legs and speed back towards the light of town, the wolf slid the hood from his head


    7. She loses herself,


    8. But when a businessman loses his


    9. Honesty fights with sense, and sense loses, ‘Much the same as you, actually


    10. When you stop trying to push away and resist negativity it loses the very

    11. For what is a man advantaged, if he gains the whole world, and loses himself, or be cast


    12. The material almost works but he loses his audience through the diesel drone


    13. She loses us easily


    14. He loses sight of them as they collect cups, teaspoons and cartons of milk, which forces him to turn round to see where they are heading


    15. An outward semblance of humanity is restored and the old biddy on the till loses interest now that Billy has rejoined the ranks of the normal


    16. Ken gradually loses patience as Ted begins to lose the thread of stories but continues to take his drink on the strength of the stranger's money


    17. She appears in the kitchen doorway, carrying two mugs of tea and Jock visibly sags as the adrenalin coursing through his veins loses the fight with the sheer bloody fatigue that he feels in his bones


    18. “Told her to stop acting like a fool before she loses all her friends


    19. then it loses its power to f


    20. “If the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?” (Matt

    21. Gospel loses integrity with unbelievers, but there are preachers


    22. man is offhanded and loses in every case


    23. the expenses peculiar to a bank consist chiefly in two articles: first, in the expense of keeping at all times in its coffers, for answering the occasional demands of the holders of its notes, a large sum of money, of which it loses the interest; and, secondly, in the expense of replenishing those coffers as fast as they are emptied by answering such occasional demands


    24. Among all the absurd speculations that have been propagated concerning the balance of trade, it has never been pretended that either the country loses by its commerce with the town, or the town by that with the country which maintains it


    25. She loses her balance


    26. When two places trade with one another, this doctrine supposes that, if the balance be even, neither of them either loses or gains; but if it leans in any degree to one side, that one of them loses, and the other gains, in proportion to its declension from the exact equilibrium


    27. If, by not raising the price high enough, he discourages the consumption so little, that the supply of the season is likely to fall short of the consumption of the season, he not only loses a part of the profit which he might otherwise have made, but he exposes the people to suffer before the end of the season, instead of the hardships of a dearth, the dreadful horrors of a famine


    28. If he judges wrong in this, and if the price does not rise, he not only loses the whole profit of the stock which he employs in this manner, but a part of the stock itself, by the expense and loss which necessarily attend the storing and keeping of corn


    29. In his verses titled, “The Need to Win,” (see Chapter 12) he describes how an archer who needs to win loses power, but one who shoots for nothing (is not-doing) conserves his power


    30. The government, therefore, when it defrays the expense of coinage, not only incurs some small expense, but loses some small revenue which it might get by a proper duty; and neither the bank, nor any other private persons, are in the smallest degree benefited by this useless piece of public generosity

    31. The person who finally pays this tax, therefore, gains by the application more than he loses by the payment of it


    32. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become


    33. The government neither gains nor loses by the additional tax, which is applied altogether to remedy the inequalities arising from the old assessment


    34. By this miserable policy, he does not, perhaps, always consult his own interest in the most effectual manner ; and he probably loses more by the diminution of his produce, than he saves by that of his tax


    35. What the revenue at present loses by drawbacks upon the re-exportation of foreign goods, which are afterwards re-landed and consumed at home, would, under this system, be saved altogether


    36. Thus, if a female cat loses its tail and then has kittens, they will be born without tails


    37. In the dialogue with darkness, an individual loses


    38. Remove from heat, and beat with a wooden spoon until the mixture is thick and loses its gloss


    39. Beat the fudge with a wooden spoon until it thickens and loses its gloss


    40. Increase to high speed once the syrup is in, and whip until the candy is stiff and loses its gloss

    41. (Public) Oratory and (Public) Action(s) cannot be separated lest a (Public) Servant loses credibility before the (Public) Eye


    42. All your "surge" does is to present more targets and the much increased chance that the common soldier loses his self-control and commit offences against the very population you wish to protect as we see in the newspapers is happening


    43. We have a joke in South Africa where a boy is asked by his teacher what would happen if he loses both ears? Great was his surprise when the kid answered he will be blind because his hat will fall over his eyes since his ears are not there to keep it up


    44. It bears mentioning that although boasting an impressive regular season won-loss record, Osborne‘s bowl record against ranked opponents was 9 (wins) and 13 (loses) including 7 loses in a row prior to winning his first national championship


    45. Spain still loses its territories to the US


    46. As soon as he loses his bearings, the compass isn’t much good anymore


    47. anger, they start to get used to it and it loses its effect and


    48. Really; it’s just a question of how much altitude it gains or loses as it climbs and dives


    49. Long story short, the dumb kid gets distracted, loses his balance and falls into this smelly, polluted, brown sludge


    50. in all the conduct of life, ever loses faith in the essential































    1. losing most of the normal reference points that social event smal talk requires:


    2. Of course if your nutrition is better and you’re losing weight and you start to feel healthier, that is going to have a drastic affect on your self-confidence


    3. "Venna?" he choked and took a long time recovering, nearly losing control of the boat


    4. Unable to keep still in my exasperation, I rise to my feet and move over to the wall where there is a poster about something or other … I stare at it blindly, annoyed with myself for losing control


    5. ’ He said, losing interest and picking up some tool or other


    6. So who was left to send starships? The Chinese space program fell apart after losing so many sleeperships on the Centorin run


    7. ’ he said sounding truly concerned … I suppose in a way my losing my job is a direct result of him taking me in for questioning … but the man was only doing his job


    8. It is easy to see how those two got into such a mess losing their tempers the other week


    9. He veers left, then right, then left again, losing control as he cuts over the median into oncoming traffic


    10. ‘Could do with losing a bit of weight anyway

    11. This continual darkness that made day and night obsolete was clearly losing its first, naïve terror, or so I thought at the time


    12. Maybe because he saw on some subconscious level he was already aware of how close Wambach was to losing it


    13. Moreover, she is always trying to sabotage me in various stupid ways: She steals my back up floppy discs and accuses me of losing them, yet I see them as soon as she opens her drawer; she refuses to show me some useful things on the computer; she gives me to type the wrong texts and then she says I am the one who doesn't work right; she drops hints I am illiterate and I don't know the computer program, and so on


    14. "I can’t without losing the system! I’m sorry!"


    15. He also acknowledged my discovery about the awareness of time and space; “Yet, if your Ego is satisfied by it, you are in danger of losing the way,” he concluded


    16. He had to put it aside, figure on losing another week and just relax, or at least pretend to


    17. about you losing yourself completely in the moment of sheer


    18. At the final whistle, losing it all again


    19. There is more to losing your life than death


    20. He wondered if he was actually losing his affection for Desa and gaining more for Luray

    21. That's not losing your temper


    22. JOYCE: And after losing that game, did he not get into an argument with the line judge and call him a "blind son of a bitch"?


    23. JOYCE: Is that not losing your temper?


    24. In spite of the lightening they had done, and losing a lot of their gear to the kranjan weeks ago, Alan's pack was still way too heavy to be running with


    25. Desa dug for it with one hand, Alan began losing ground as both Luray's heels made furrows in the soft soil


    26. Delivers L-ascorbic acid in concentrated form, without losing potency to improve the


    27. the losing of herself, crashes in


    28. Just think for a moment what it would have been like for him in ten or twenty years … he was how old? Forty? He’d have been losing his agility soon … would have had to watch himself slowly becoming less and less use


    29. ‘I’m not good at losing those I love


    30. Losing her was no great tragedy to my egocentric teenage self

    31. He paced up and down, spinning round and shouting at the sky, losing the whereabouts of the accused and scarily out of control


    32. I was a child, immature and sure, lost and losing it,


    33. Happy with the lazy, sexy, mellow river ride, but concerned that she was losing her battle with yaag once again


    34. I wandered round the lanes at the back of the town, losing count of all the drowsy flowers blazing up ahead


    35. you can without losing your balance


    36. When losing the signal I would start to lose control and pretend I was going to jump out of the car, but my father screaming my name at me usually slugged me back into present time reality for a short period anyway


    37. She was in no danger of losing her universe or any part of it


    38. Losing the argument means


    39. I was crying for myself, for losing him


    40. I’ve arranged to have the day off … Gary is now in mourning at the possibility of losing his secretary!’

    41. At first I kept tripping and losing my balance by thinking too much about what I was doing, so I stopped for a moment until I was ready to start all over again


    42. By the time that he did make the connection he was sinking to the floor and losing consciousness, his head and shoulders wrapped in an old bath towel that his step-mother had thrown over his head as she struck to soak up the inevitable streams of blood


    43. So scared of losing money, they want their kids to serve others all their


    44. I fear the thought of living with this illness forever – or even losing my life to it


    45. "Thom's losing her,” Elmore said


    46. 'What? For losing two seats?' Mama said, 'the total number of seats is


    47. She was in danger of just losing herself in it and forgetting to lead the conversation in the direction she needed it to go


    48. ‘It was bizarre, Sally, saying goodbye to Anna … like losing a relation


    49. They would share their fate together, she would not chance losing him again; she told him


    50. and losing consciousness, his head and shoulders wrapped in an old













































    1. He looked too stunned to speak, it was Ava who said, "But you wore those sandals, I couldn't have lost an aluminum there, even if I had been carrying one around, and I don't think I've ever carried an aluminum on my person," Ava said


    2. pound steps 10 times you have lost 10 pounds


    3. The woman lost her husband of fifty years at the border of Canada and Washington State


    4. He lost his younger brother to the same zombies at the border


    5. Everyone stares at their drink, a sort of collective moment of silence for lost loved ones


    6. "Well, to be honest, I lost one or them, the one that came with my expedition


    7. He dropped to his knees, pleading for his lost cigarettes


    8. Before Bob knew what was going on, he had lost two of his accomplices


    9. (This may also explain as to why men are reluctant to ask for directions when lost, why men are more vulnerable to the adverse health effects of stress, and why women enjoy a significantly longer life expectancy than men do)


    10. have lost our faith in supernatural acts of God

    11. He could see their ancient ash clubs clearly now, stained now with the blood and shattered remains of the brave men lost in the East Towers


    12. It is said that entire mountains were destroyed and thousands of human slaves lost to obtain enough ore to smelt it


    13. Stephen is completely lost in his thoughts over breakfast


    14. Why was this happening now when the parts had been lost decades ago?


    15. At twenty seven miles it was lost in the darkness behind the lanterns on the hundreds of ships on the way


    16. Scar could understand what she was doing; failure could not be tolerated and he had lost a very valuable artifact


    17. lost in thought


    18. Serpent tasted the air, thinking back to the taste of his mate who is lost to him forever


    19. It was too dark to see how much skin she lost, their clattering claws on the dry gravel told her which way was west


    20. He had lost more sleep than she had on this adventure, but maybe he was used to it

    21. Nancy lost her footing and had to grab the desk to steady herself


    22. Andy keeps munching on his sandwich, lost in thought


    23. ’ He said quickly, ‘Liz, would he have got angry? Lost his temper?’


    24. For weeks David had denied this one simple fact while lost in the fever of


    25. The documentary is still going on, though I have completely lost the thread of what they are talking about now


    26. Too small a pile, and too much heat is lost


    27. I'm not privy to a lot of it and I've lost touch with most of them


    28. John watches her, lost in


    29. ‘It is going to screw me up financially … I expect Stephen has told you that I lost my job


    30. they lost their sense of time and place and became one writhing creature on that

    31. Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70's, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love


    32. Let's say a little money came into the station and somehow got lost


    33. Both are sunburned and seemed to have lost weight


    34. ‘Mum must have lost her temper with a vengeance then – he has my sympathy, Mrs Merrett


    35. I lost my heart to her over the winter of


    36. Estwig asked if any of them had ever performed on video and lost interest when he found they had not


    37. if he got that far before you both lost the plot … the rooms need a splash of paint but apart from that they are okay


    38. When a man lost touch with the source of life, ev-


    39. was lost in the jungle undergrowth where you only see the predator’s eyes for what


    40. The same way a 12 year old child looking for a lost football would enter

    41. The heat of Noonsleep and Afternoonday was only a tiny bit blunted as they descended into the Gengee, but they had lost only a few hundred feet of altitude, just enough for him to notice


    42. It was a little sad that parts of one's life were lost in that way


    43. ‘After Jack died, I was lost … saw myself as half of something which no longer existed


    44. She was a good place to start off if you hadn't lost your virginity yet and an acceptable place to finish off the night if no one else was willing


    45. their exhausted relatives have lost all hope, having spent all family savings


    46. She seemed to have lost her sparkle all of a sudden, as


    47. "He lost the last one


    48. cancer started making up for the time lost


    49. "For all I know they are lost in the war


    50. They were running in Ceres with a backup in Vesta, but we lost touch before there was a ten year round trip in our communications














































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    Synonyms for "lose"

    lose suffer miss turn a loss fail relinquish forfeit surrender sacrifice drop yield succumb mislay misplace

    "lose" definitions

    fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense


    fail to win


    suffer the loss of a person through death or removal


    miss from one's possessions; lose sight of


    allow to go out of sight or mind


    fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit


    fail to get or obtain


    fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind


    withdraw, as from reality


    be set at a disadvantage