lose it

Example Sentences

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But maybe I'm supposed to lose it, he thought, feeling fairly certain that whatever was coming out of the egg wasn't the kind of thing one would keep for a pet.

From Literature

But other times, the children had known love and lost it, and as the boy himself had attested, that hole where love had once lived was immense.

From Literature

“That’s what’s weighing you down, vinye! You don’t know the weight of fear till you try to swim. Once you lose it your body will move through the water like the birds through the air!”

From Literature

“If that had happened to me in Seattle, I would have lost it.”

From Literature

"I am the one who sets the rules in the household about phone use, and if for whatever reason I don't think they're using it appropriately, then they'll lose it."

From BBC