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
If you wait till everything is as it should be or might be conceivably, you will do nothing, and will lose life.
From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by Newman, John Henry
The Princess begged and prayed, but it was no good, for Ritter Red said again: ''Tis better that one should lose life than two.'
From Popular Tales from the Norse by Dasent, George Webbe
