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Example sentences for "total loss"

  • The Brankelow eventually became embedded in the sand and was a total loss.

  • On a stormy night in 1787 a Spanish vessel struck on the cliffs by the church and became a total loss.

  • Ascites and very thick anasarcous legs and thighs, total loss of strength and appetite.

  • She was greatly emaciated, and had almost a total loss of appetite.

  • Her belly was very large, and she had a total loss of appetite.

  • Howard's total loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners was two thousand five hundred and twenty-eight.

  • Any loss other than a total loss, as defined and described above, is a "partial" loss.

  • In the case of a total loss, the measure of indemnity is the sum fixed by the policy if valued, or the insurable value of the object insured if the policy be unvalued.

  • In the case of a missing ship after the lapse of a reasonable time without news, an "actual" total loss may be presumed.

  • The insured may either treat constructive total loss as a partial loss or as an actual total loss, in which latter case he abandons his insured interest to the underwriter.

  • Before the volunteer fire department could put their uniforms on and get there that ill-fated buckboard was a total loss with no insurance.

  • Anyhow, it's not a total loss, Lobel, remember that.

  • A few years later, she struck the Rock Island Bridge and sank in less than five minutes, a total loss.

  • All the others were turned over to the underwriters as they lay, and were a total loss.

  • When a boat is snagged, it is generally possible to run her ashore in time to save the passengers and crew, although the vessel itself may prove a total loss.

  • The total Confederate loss is unknown; but Corse reported burying two hundred and thirty-one of their dead, and taking four hundred and eleven prisoners, which would indicate a total loss of sixteen hundred.

  • Lee claimed that he had captured nine thousand prisoners and thirty guns, and it is probable that Pope's total loss numbered at least fifteen thousand.

  • Fire Insurance) Defn: A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.

  • In most it has gone on to total loss of hearing, and this in several instances in spite of the cautious use of specific remedies almost from the beginning.

  • It has, therefore, been usually abandoned, and becomes a total loss.

  • Not only were the trees a total loss to the farmer, but, from their great size and the labor required to handle them, they were so serious an obstruction as often to preclude the clearing of valuable land.

  • In trunks of small and medium size, the sapwood may amount to more than the heartwood, and is a total loss.

  • I'll bet a cooky you're a total loss and no accident insurance," Matt soliloquized.

  • Here's a letter from the insurance people, inclosing a check for a total loss on the vessel, but they repudiate payment of the insurance on the cargo.

  • In fifteen minutes she would have been on the beach and a total loss--and I have a document, signed by Captain Murphy and his mates, to prove it.

  • Has the Sub-Treasury or the Aquarium made a total loss, or what's the matter?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "total loss" 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:
    generally restricted; just said; knowing nothing; last found; purely vegetable; threw herself; total abstainer; total cost; total darkness; total depravity; total distance; total eclipse; total employment; total failure; total force; total ignorance; total loss; total number; total stranger; total value; total weight; total wreck; totally different; tuberculous disease; unto them; will undertake