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
On the other hand, Henry was obliged to issue a Forest Charter, based on certain articles of Magna Carta, which declared that no man should lose life or limb for hunting in the royal forests.
From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery
To lose it means to lose its earnings and to have, in addition, the heavy expenses of medical attendance, medicines, and nursing, and often to lose life itself with its potential earnings of every sort.
From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher
