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Example sentences for: lost

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Vitaliano lost to a Republican City Council member, Vito Fossella, who said that he would work to eliminate the toll on the bridge completely.
So, you've lost $1 billion in the market--single-handedly bankrupting a 233-year-old bank--become an international fugitive, and spent three years in jail.
R.M. Alexander's response (Nuisance dust better than no jobs, March 2-3, 1996) to concerns raised about dust generated by a local mining operation reply in large part on irrelevant ad homonym tactics by conjuring up the Sierra Club, their tree hugging ilk, and mining jobs lost to communities elsewhere.
And given that there has been no real enforcement of these rules in the past, fund-raisers haven't lost a lot of sleep about contributions turning out to be tainted.
Buchanan further argues that after Germany's loss in the Battle of Britain in 1940, the United States was safe, and thus Roosevelt, who inveigled the country into war, is at fault for the 400,000 American lives lost.