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Example sentences for "lose time"

  • And then, as we had no occasion to lose time in eating, we kept the oars going so much the livelier.

  • Had she the strength of twenty, I should despair of launching the boat without the aid of machinery But we lose time in words; I will go below, in order to judge of the probable duration of our doubt and then to our preparations.

  • A gentleman of your extraordinary merit must be reluctant to lose time in useless words, though you are so young--young for the pretty command it is your good fortune to enjoy!

  • Trifle, dawdle, lose time, waste time, idle away time, fritter away time.

  • Do not let us lose time, replies the genie, all thy reasoning shall not divert me from my purpose: Make haste, and tell me which way you choose to die.

  • I was unwilling to lose time to find him, and by the way I met with this young nobleman whom you see, and to whom I am under a thousand obligations; for, knowing my debtor, he would needs do me the favour of going along with me.

  • Well, then, the sooner you let him know the better, as he will not wish to lose time," I replied.

  • Not to lose time, we carried it to the boat, that it might be cut up on board.

  • I urged him not to lose time, but to try and find some food, hoping that a good meal would give me strength to proceed.

  • We lose time, and time serves the rebels, as it increases their moral force.

  • We lose time, and time is all in favor of the rebels.

  • There are two smaller towns on this island, which we did not visit, being unwilling to lose time.

  • Being unwilling to lose time, he sailed fifteen leagues farther along that coast without going into any harbour, lest he should not have sufficient wind to bring him out again.

  • Besides, Castelka is betrothed; it is too bad to lose time in discussing this.

  • Up to that time, the painting of portraits was to continue its usual course, and to go on in the same fashion till the last day, for Lineta did not wish to lose time.

  • Even for the simple reason that Svirski did not wish to lose time, it happened that when Pan Stanislav and his wife came, the Osnovskis were in the studio.

  • Madam, no more; We lose time; my command, or my example, May move the soldiers to the better cause.

  • Not to lose time in fruitless complaints, let us pursue our new contrivance, that you may see your two mistresses, and I my one.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    alkaline solution; being heard; camp equipage; feet and; gambling house; having spent; hundred dollars; inner chamber; little annoyed; long tyme; lose ground; lose heart; lose sight; lose the; lose their; lose them; lose time; monthly journal; much afraid; para que; radiotelephone communication; realize that; stands upon; the left; volution fran; would take