The Jumna Musjid, a palatial building which the mutineers had converted into a fortress, also fell after a heavy attack, in which a number of lives were lost.
The report was awful, and the fort was shaken to its very foundations, but no lives were lost.
The storming of the gates and breaches was the most dangerous work, and it was at these attacks that the greatest number of lives were lost.
Untold misery and hundreds of lives were lost, merely because two ambitious men had gotten into a wrangle.
The strikers became violent, destroyed property, and a number of lives were lost.
An examination after the fleet had withdrawn revealed the fact that no lives were lost on the American side, and none of the vessels were seriously injured.
No lives were lost, but a member of the crew, who had signed on as a Russian Finn, declared himself a German and was taken away in the submarine.
Fire was opened recklessly and without warning, and it was merely a matter of chance that no lives were lost.
Hundreds of lives were lost, and great damage was done in many cities; and numerous lighter shocks occurred during the next sixteen years.
May, 1886; a few houses were destroyed, but no lives were lost.
This region being almost unknown to foreigners at that time, no one can say how many thousands or millions of lives were destroyed by “China’s Sorrow.
Four buildings and many small houses were wrecked in Laurel, but no lives were lost.
The break came when it was least expected, but the residents were warned to leave town, and no lives were lost.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lives were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
