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use "lost" in a sentence


You must make up for lost time.

The King lost his crown after it was discovered that he was having an affair with a divorced woman.

The government has put a freeze on development of agricultural land to ensure that our farms are not all lost to urban spread.

The basketball star lost his amateur status when it was revealed that he had been paid for playing on his college team.

He invested a large amount of his money on the stock market, and then lost it all.

Elayne Boosler once joked that her ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

I lost my appetite for meat after seeing a television program about the treatment of animals on some farms.

Over 25,000 people have lost an arm or a leg to landmines in Angola, but the country is so poor that only a lucky few receive artificial limbs.

You will be astonished when you see Stacey, she has cut her hair, and lost a lot of weight, and just looks gorgeous.

The attribution of the long lost manuscript to William Shakespeare has now been authenticated by a team of experts.

auction The little boy bribed his sister with a chocolate bar not to tell their mother that he had lost his new watch.

Hundreds of British and Argentine soldiers lost their lives in the battle for control of the Falklands Islands.

He bet his entire paycheck on a horserace and lost everything.

One of the gamblers had bet a large sum at the blackjack table, and lost it all.

I was in a bit of a bind for a while after I lost my job, but things are much better now.

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