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
To lose life was nothing, if there was heaven beyond; pain, torture, martyrdom would be nothing if God the good was standing on the other side.
From The White Sister by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
To lose life and self-respect together was more than I could face.
From Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
