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Example sentences for "having lost"

  • Bocchus, having lost a battle, and being unwilling to carry on the war any longer, delivered up Jugurtha in chains to Marius.

  • Having lost my way and roaming in the forest, I came into this distress, while seeking to get fruits from this tree.

  • Alone and astray, having lost my caravan, I am roaming through the deep forest, exhausted by hunger and lassitude.

  • Browne then pushed on to Jellalabad, having lost in the attack 2 officers and 35 men killed.

  • Indians and Canadians, who were repulsed, and retreated on the third day, having lost 30 killed.

  • The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc.

  • He got up at last, having lost hope of seeing Noel again, conscious too that he had answered the last three questions at random.

  • He must have loved that woman very much to have kept her photograph all this time, in spite of having lost her.

  • But long after Nedda had fallen into dreams that night, he lay awake, with his left foot enclosed between Floras', trying to regain that sense of warmth which he knew he must never confess to having lost.

  • Rosa having undertaken to bring you back to our house, I prepare these few lines to let you know that Angela is in despair at having lost you.

  • I got out and prepared for the search, but before going along the streets I went into a shop and bought a hat, having lost mine on the way.

  • The day before my departure, vexed at having lost my time and my amorous compliments, I made up my mind to steal that portrait--a slight compensation for not having won the original.

  • He had grown fatter both in person and face, and the latter had most suffered by the change--having lost by the enlargement of the features some of that refined and spiritualized look that had in other times distinguished it.

  • Having lost some of his early and best friends, Edward Long, and all the others being spread far and near, abroad and in England, following out their respective careers and destiny, Harness was about the only early friend he had near him.

  • This battalion suffered considerably before it reached the road, and we did not get off scot-free, having lost out of our five companies about twenty-four men.

  • The statement caused Phelim to be suspected of having lost his.

  • He has, the night before, been in ill luck, having lost to El Coyote a large sum at the game of monte.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having lost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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