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
It is easy to spoil life completely by an obstinate concentration on the object that is being withheld—to lose life by insisting on finding it in one's own chosen way.
From Men Women and God by Gray, Arthur Herbert
He fears to be "a timid friend to truth," "—to lose life among those who shall call this present time antiquity."
From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
