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Example sentences for: lost

How can you use “lost” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Was it a deliberate joke, comparable to the omission, from the spellcheck subroutine of WordPerfect 5.0, of lost?)
Without that acknowledgement, we may all be doomed to live life in the manner of this Culturebox reader--who lost my sympathy, I'm sorry to say, as soon as he called me Judy :
In 1939, he ran against the Chicago Democratic machine for a seat on the City Council and not surprisingly lost.
In his pleasure in the sheer variousness of paradises found and lost, Walcott glories in what the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins called "dappled things."
TV critics, at least the political-minded ones, opine gravely that Roseanne 's cancellation proves that a complacent America has lost its appetite for "real-life," "blue-collar" characters, that all TV viewers want now are 3 rd Rock From the Sun aliens and Seinfeld yuppies.