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Sentences starting with losing

Losing all patience with him, gave Mithoo, one of the gang, 5 rupees ($2.50) to murder him, and take the sin upon himself. [5]

Sentences ending with losing

To understand that, try to picture to yourselves what it is that they think they are losing. [10]
Wine should bring him forgetfulness, too, bless him again with the sense of joyous existence which he knew so well, and which he now seemed on the point of losing. [10]
Let us hold fast what we seem on the verge of losing. [10]
It became manifest early that we were losing. [9]
He thought of all he was losing. [6]

Short sentences using losing

Are you losing your sanity? [9]
And I've been losing, bwother. [2]
But we are losing time. [10]
I'm losing all. [13]

Sentences containing losing two or more times

She was filled with the terror of losing him--of losing all that remained to her in the world. [9]

More example sentences with the word losing in them

I'll talk with you tomorrow, and am I not right, Jungfrau Elsyou won't make him suffer for losing the wager, but exercise your domestic authority after a more gentle fashion? [10]
Yet I heard you read it--without losing my balance. [5]
Mulberry Sellers, are you losing your mind? [5]
They said they would "admire" to see a "Gentile" force a Mormon to fulfil a losing contract in Utah! [5]
He had been within an ace of losing his Katterle forever, and through no one's guilt save that of the man on whose truth and steadfastness she so firmly relied. [10]
I cannot tell who is losing in games that are being played. [5]
Gradually the people who came here ostensibly for religious exercises made a longer and more permanent occupation, and, without losing its ephemeral character, the place grew and demanded more substantial accommodations. [4]
The French losses were almost equal to ours, but very early we said to ourselves that we were losing the battle, and we did lose it. [2]
To lose that watch would be like losing his share in the promises of the Church. [11]
But now--now there was the old unschooled simplicity, the unique and lonely personality, the homely soul and body bending to one root-idea, losing themselves in a wave of duty. [11]
But his hand was still on his patient's pulse, which told him unmistakably that the heart had taken the alarm and was losing its energy under the depressing nervous influence. [6]
Just as I was losing sight of the skirt of trees at Grand Pre, a gentleman in the dress of a rural clergyman left his seat, and complimented me with this remark: "I perceive, sir, that you are fond of reading. [4]
Now that she was losing her most sincere friends, the only ones who might have ventured a kindly warning, she must learn to guard herself. [10]
There was something very sad in losing the old dog; yet I am glad he met a natural fate. [14]
It is a very bad business, said the Brandon parliament, and it just shows that the whole country is losing its moral sense, its capacity to judge what is right and what is wrong. [4]
I had lost track of the cards, and knew I was losing prodigiously. [9]
Thus capital came to the assistance of Mr. Jason, a fund was raised, and I was given carte blanche to defend the miserable city auditor and purchasing agent, both of whom elicited my sympathy; for they were stout men, and rapidly losing weight. [9]
He was able to say to himself that he had been justly cut off from kindness which he knew how to value in losing it. [8]
He carried close to his leg a narrow unsheathed sword (small, curved, and not like a real weapon) and looked now at the superior officers and now back at the men without losing step, his whole powerful body turning flexibly. [2]
Is it better to give up Moscow without a battle, or by accepting battle to risk losing the army as well as Moscow? [2]
She was beginning to feel very much at home with the town itself, and she was also fast acquiring ease with the distinguished people she met at the Dilworthy table, and losing what little of country timidity she had brought with her from Hawkeye. [5]
She had expected to be expelled as a castaway when she came down the mountain, losing her way in the darkness. [10]
I dragged through three chapters, losing flesh all the time, and then was honest enough to quit, and confess to myself that I haven't any romance literature appetite, as far as I can see, except for your books. [5]
His terrier, as though realizing exactly what he wished, seemed to guide him by rubbing against his legs, and even pressing hard against them when he was in any danger of losing the middle of the road, or swerving towards a ditch or some obstruction. [11]
In these years, though I worked hard and often late, I still found time for convivialities, for social gaieties, yet little by little without realizing the fact, I was losing zest for the companionship of my former intimates. [9]
Only for one thing did she entreat the gods; for strength to forget the man who had betrayed her into losing her peace of mind. [10]
Tropical by organization, they cannot fight for life with our eastern and northwestern breezes without losing the color and fragrance into which their lives would have blossomed in the latitude of myrtles and oranges. [6]
Apparently none of them can bear to think of losing the present hell entirely, they merely want the temperature cooled down a little. [5]
Men were losing their heads; there was an element of irresponsibility in the new outbreak likely to breed some violent act, which every man of them would lament when sober again. [11]
My sense of their grandeur and their noble beauty was neither lost nor impaired; I had gained a new interest in the mountains without losing the old ones. [5]
He had led the troops successfully through the deserts between Syria and the Egyptian Delta without losing a single man on the dangerous road by the Sirbonian Sea and Barathra, where many an army had met destruction. [10]
But here, while the sun shines above our heads, and everything is bright and happy, we are sitting sadly down, and losing time. [12]
But something of the same fever in a different form reaches a good many non-combatants, who have no thought of losing a drop of precious blood belonging to themselves or their families. [6]
Its President was the rector of the little chapel, a man who, in spite of the Thirty-Nine Articles, could stand fire from the widest-mouthed heretical blunderbuss without flinching or losing his temper. [6]
He was at the philanthropic centre of a good many movements which he watched others carrying out, as a calm and kindly spectator, without losing his common sense for a moment. [6]
We were of the old Florentine nobility"--Rowena's heart gave a great bound, her nostrils expanded, and a fine light played in her eyes--"and when the war broke out, my father was on the losing side and had to fly for his life. [5]
It appeared that the mother, from the time of her arrival at Withersteen House, had relaxed and was slowly losing her hold on life. [13]
They said that the misery of this shave had gone so far beyond any thing they had ever experienced before, that they could not bear the idea of losing such a chance of hearing a cordial opinion from me on the subject. [5]
He knew that the inspiration which gave him understanding was losing its throne in his intelligence, and the almighty Majority-Vote was proclaiming itself in its stead. [6]
Yet she dreaded the great temptation of centring all her thoughts upon this one time, and losing her interest in the smaller hopes and employments of the remaining hours. [14]
He had accepted the fact as he would have accepted the calamity of losing his sight or his hearing. [6]
He notices that the English character is losing its insularity, is more accessible to foreign influences, and is adopting foreign, especially French, modes of living. [4]
By this time, the dogs, panting, and lolling out their tongues, came swinging along, keeping the trail, like stupids, and consequently losing ground when the deer doubled. [4]
We agreed, however, that, but for disappointed expectations and the prospect of late lettuce and peas, we were gaining by the fire as much as we were losing by the frost. [4]
You will see that I am losing my senses. [10]
Sir Wendelin felt that he was losing consciousness, he heard faintly a voice from the grotto where the lady was imprisoned calling to him: "The ring, remember the ring! [10]
He expressed his thanks in a few low chords overflowing with yearning and passion; then all was still, for the warder had forbidden him to sing or play at night and he dared not risk losing the man's favor. [10]
He could not tell them what we say now: "Why fight, why block the road, losing our own men and inhumanly slaughtering unfortunate wretches? [2]
Not everybody was taking joy of sunrises and losing himself in the delicate contentment of the sunset. [11]
Yet I am sure, that, in the nature of things, many minds must change their key now and then, on penalty of getting out of tune or losing their voices. [6]
No one is sure of finding work; no one is sure of not losing it. [8]
He had half succumbed to the danger of losing, by a moment's weakness, the fruit of great sacrifices and severe exertions. [10]
We have no statistics on the subject, and cannot tell whether it is gaining or losing in the country at large. [4]
They were both sore at losing me, and says Mr. Beck: I We'll not soon get another to keep the brigantine like a man-o'-war, as did you, John Paul. [9]
All that he--and she--was in danger of losing came home to her. [11]
But never had she felt so grieved for him or so much afraid of losing him. [2]
Some of the sharp old church-members began to complain that his exhortations were losing their pungency. [6]
Mrs. Maturin, Insall, seemed to possess the secret that would bring her peace--and yet, in spite of something urging her to speak, she feared the risk of losing them. [9]
When poor Alfred, seeing that he was losing her, he did not know how, kept exclaiming: "Oh, here's a jolly one! [5]
She did not see that the man she had married to love and to cherish was slowly changing--was the change only a slow one now?--before her eyes; losing that brave freshness which had so appealed to London when he first came back to civilization. [11]
Still, as he sat brooding and searching the very depths of his soul, he could not help feeling that he had certainly acted rightly and would do the same again, even at the risk of losing her. [10]
Much depended on Rostov's winning or losing on that seven of hearts. [2]
He carried his resolution within himself in terror and haste, like something dreadful and alien to him, for, after the previous night's experience, he was afraid of losing it. [2]
Months ago you put your property out of your hands, boasting that you did so to escape losing it on prosecution for libel. [5]
I wanted to put myself irrevocably beyond the old life, which simply could not have gone on, and I saw myself in the advancing years becoming tawdry and worn, losing little by little what I had gained at a price. [9]
He was losing precious time--four days at Etampes, and four more at Janville. [5]
In April her praise became still warmer, only she regretted that Kuni's pretty face was losing its fresh colour and her well-formed figure its roundness. [10]
How was it possible to live for hours at a time in this bedlam without losing presence of mind and thrusting hand or body in the wrong place, or becoming deaf? [9]
One of my own classmates has undergone a singular change of late years,--his hair losing its original tint, and getting a remarkable discolored look; and another has ceased to cultivate any hair at all over the vertex or crown of the head. [6]
Ten men, battalions, or divisions, fighting fifteen men, battalions, or divisions, conquer--that is, kill or take captive--all the others, while themselves losing four, so that on the one side four and on the other fifteen were lost. [2]
That is our only comfort in losing you, that you have gone to the greater work. [9]
We have but one heart, and yet we pour it out into other hearts without its losing in strength or in warmth. [10]
Sometimes he was on the point of losing patience with this enigmatic person. [9]
Thus Ephraim might, on his account, incur the peril of losing the one fortunate moment which promised escape. [10]
More than half of what I earn goes in them--" "In the first grief of losing my poor wife," said the baker, "I promised a small offering every new moon, and a greater one every year. [10]
Reasoning herself out of these fears, or losing sight of them for a little while, there came the anxiety to which the adventures of the night gave rise. [12]
We still have nothing of that Richmond newspaper story of Kirby Smith crossing and of Banks losing an arm. [7]
If they will not do this--if they prefer to hazard all for the sake of destroying the government--it is for them to consider whether it is probable I will surrender the government to save them from losing all. [7]
The family did not complain, except on account of losing their stock, and promptly brought a supply of wood in a flat. [5]
But it could not be and, losing all self-control and dignity, she shrieked aloud, tore the blue headband from her hair and, repeating the "never" constantly as if she had gone out of her senses, gasped: "Never, never, never, so long as I live! [10]
Oh no, I'm not afraid of losing my place! [8]
It leads to negligence and dishonesty--negligence by losing interest in the case, and dishonesty in refusing to refund when you have allowed the consideration to fail. [7]
Well, I'm losing my reverence for glaciers. [5]
And it is my duty to tell you it is because people to-day are losing their beliefs that we have this lenient attitude toward the sacred things. [9]
Gathering other blase multimillionaires into a Poker Club; defiling his own palace with it; losing hundreds of thousands to it at every sitting, and sillily vain of the admiring notoriety it made for him. [5]
She is too much alone, and if she has travelled by the compass all these thirteen years without losing the track, it is something to the credit of human nature. [11]
I read this morning that a Chinese fleet was sunk, but I did n't think half so much about it as I did about losing my sleeve button, confound it! [6]
It seems to me that the public is gradually losing its power of discrimination between the value of honesty and dishonesty. [4]
But a great love had been given him, and to that love he must speak the truth, even at the cost of losing it. [9]
And his own love as he gazed at her, sevenfold increased as it had been by the knowledge of losing her, changed in texture from homage to worship--nay, to adoration. [9]
Insensibly she was losing the old standards she used to apply to success. [4]
They were the losing party in the grim game of war, enemies--rebels. [10]
Her will was losing its power. [6]
Meantime Gwendolen was losing her morning, and many dollars. [5]
Other columns after losing half their men were retreating in disorderly confused masses. [2]
The fear of losing consciousness, as he had done the day before, passed away and, though his feet were still heavy, he walked rapidly toward the alluring goal. [10]
Besides, those who lose through me are mainly dukes, counts, and gentlemen with rich fiefs and fat bourgs, whom losing doubtless benefits, as bleeding relieves a sick man. [10]
But while he looked straight into the flaming eyes, it seemed to him that they were losing their light and terror, that they were growing tame and dull; the charm was dissolving, the numbness was passing away, he could move once more. [6]
Sugar is the life of Mauritius, and it is losing its grip. [5]
Des Cartes and Leibnitz denied that any new motion originated in nature, or that any ever ceased to exist; all motion being in a circle, passing from one body to another, one losing what the other gained. [3]

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