lose life
Example Sentences
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The judge ruled the department failed to properly consider the impact on elderly people who could potentially lose life savings to meet health costs.
From BBC • Jul. 4, 2023
She called on the U.S. to “use its leverage,” adding “way too many people lose life daily” in Afghanistan.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2021
Especially since, as a religion, it asks us to sell all we have, to renounce this world, to lose life itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hence it is not only more eligible to lose life honourably than to save it basely, but security and renown both arise from the same source.
From The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Gordon, Thomas
Shall I ask him whether it be better to lose life than liberty?
From Thaumaturgia by Oxonian, An
