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lost

Definition for lost

adjective as in extinct, destroyed

adjective as in distracted, dreaming

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Example Sentences

So in that sense we have gotten close to the families that have lost loved ones, be it from one side or the other.

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

He was not originally so uninhibited, however, as can now be seen in his “lost” novel, Skylight.

“The origin of Brokpas is lost in antiquity,” a research article from the University of Delhi notes.

He lost his bid for a fourth term to George Pataki that year.

The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.

This vessel, loaded with supplies, went ashore and was lost; and one hundred and twenty Japanese and three Dutchmen were drowned.

They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.

How much of the imagination, how much of the intellect, evaporates and is lost while we seek to embody it in words!

Kum Kale has been a brilliant bit of work, though I fear we have lost nearly a quarter of our effectives.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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