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
The Princess begged and prayed him not to leave her, but Ritter Red turned a deaf ear to her, and all he said was: 'Tis better for one to lose life than for two.'
From Popular Tales from the Norse by Dasent, George Webbe
Singletary then said that for his part he had not come to take or lose life; and he and his employer departed.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Phillips, Ulrich Bonnell
