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Example sentences for "would lose"

  • A man offered him about one-half what the stuff was worth, and he was so crazy to play that he was about to let them go, when I advanced him much more on them than the stranger had offered; for I knew he would lose them.

  • I told the old gentleman that we might as well get some of his money, as he would lose it anyway before he got back to Texas.

  • We continued working the boats and making plenty of money, and every time we got out in the city both of us would lose a big sum of money; and then perhaps I would have to fight, for they were looking for a man to start a fuss with me.

  • It was thy master's; shrew me, If I would lose it for a revenue Of any king's in Europe!

  • I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy; Yet, to recover them, would lose my life.

  • And if he did--well, right there he would lose control of his mine.

  • It was Mary Fortune and he remembered all too well that time when she had told him he would lose.

  • What she knew might have helped him, but she was against him now--and she had told him in advance that he would lose.

  • She had said he would lose because he had no case, and because he used money instead; but he knew from that smile she had other reasons for pronouncing his doom in advance.

  • She, then, would lose everything, even Karl, who was already lost to her.

  • The King, having determined it, would lose no time.

  • But, the way things were going, Nikky might marry anybody, and go away to live, and he would lose him.

  • He would lose heart, and be unable to work.

  • Sometimes he forgot it: often for months together he would lose consciousness of its mighty monotonous rhythm: but he knew that it was there, that it never ceased, like the ocean roaring in the night.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "would lose" 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:
    ever beheld; play cricket; reserve corps; shall please; would become; would break; would burst; would come; would consider; would continue; would cost; would feel; would fight; would have been very; would laugh; would look; would marry; would move; would never have been; would propose; would scarcely; would sell; would suffice; would take; would undertake; would walk