lose it

How to use lose it in a sentence

There was not a moment to lose, for one well-directed shot might exterminate half of us.

That he might lose his head and 'introduce an element of sex' was conscience confessing that it had been already introduced.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

Speaking with a certain dignity and using the language of the court, he said that they had not a moment to lose.

Fearing to lose his way, he bawls over the banister, and through the corridors, “Is any one there?”

CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

When Tim hesitates he loses his temper as a sensible man should lose it—he buries it, and his indomitable good humor wins.

To lose a breath of the public approbation in his present state, were to give up fatally the only stay on which he rested.

"Oh, well, it's easy to lose track of a lone man in a country as big as this," he returned suavely.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

By doing so the natural parents lose all personal rights and are relieved from all legal duties.

Again, he may grow faint and dizzy when he has climbed only a part of the way, or he may lose his hold from very weakness.

It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985