Formidable (battleship) is torpedoed in the English Channel (600 lives lost).
Hawke (cruiser) is torpedoed by a German submarine in the North Sea (500 lives lost).
The British hospital ship Anglia is sunk by a mine in the Channel (85 lives lost).
Argyll (cruiser) is wrecked off the east coast of Scotland (no lives lost).
Steamer "Harpalyce," in service of American commission for aid of Belgium, torpedoed; 15 lives lost.
Two hundred vessels and nearly 1,000 lives lost in one night off this coast.
The training-ship “Eurydice” wrecked off Dunnose, Isle of Wight, and over 360 lives lost.
The British transport Europa, having troops on board, was totally destroyed by fire opposite Brest, and 21 lives lost.
The steamer Griffith on lake Erie was burnt and 300 lives lost.
More than 70 lives lostby a rail road accident between Versailles and Paris among whom were the celebrated navigator, admiral Dumont d'Urville and his wife and children.
Royal Mail steamers Rhone and Wye and about fifty other vessels driven ashore and wrecked at St Thomas, West Indies, by a hurricane; about 1,000 lives lost.
Steamer Evening Star, from New York to New Orleans, foundered; about 250 lives lost.
Steamer London, on her way to Melbourne, foundered in the Bay of Biscay; 220 lives lost.
The developments of every hour make it more and more apparent that the exact number of lives lost in the Johnstown horror will never be known.
The most conservative estimates here place the number of lives lost at fully 5,000.
The training ship Wellesley, on the Tyne, was burnt; no lives lost.
Leinster, passenger steamer, sunk in Irish Channel by submarine; 480 lives lost; final German atrocity at sea.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lives lost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
