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Example sentences for: losing

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And never mind that it's taken me almost 50 years to learn how to put a reasonable outfit together: I may be in danger of losing my gay accreditation.
Last Friday's Wall Street Journal featured the following curiosity: The editors asked six celebrities to describe their vacation reading, and one, Virgin chairman Richard Branson, wasn't reading anything because he was "making changes to my upcoming autobiography, 'Losing My Virginity.
Thus, kick the bucket is listed in the category E29e Pork (because of its presumed etymology, Slaughtered pigs are hung by the heels from the bucket or beam) while go west appears under G12e Sunset, bite the dust (questionably defined as brought low) appears at C10f Winning and losing the battle, buy the farm (which I cannot find in the OED ) is listed under E7a Land (where it is labeled as an Americanism, confuting my understanding that it originated with the R.A.F., early in WWII), and cash in your chips/ checks goes under K77c Roulette (which might be all right for a British English classification, but I think that Americans would expect to find it at K81 Poker ).
If I was hysterical about losing some scriptwriting job, my father would brush it aside as a basic risk, part of the life I had chosen.
99) went slightly off (losing fruit and gaining acidity); the cheaper white Bordeaux, Pont de Brion Blanc ($13.