Sentence examples for I lost not from inspiring English sources

"I lost not only a wife, but a good friend," he said after the funeral.

(Keen to receive his commission, he kept quiet. "And what had I lost? – not my virginity").

I owe it to the people that I lost not to forget it, not to pretend like it didn't happen".

"I lost not just some very close colleagues but people who had worked incredibly hard in their local communities for years, if not decades," says Murray.

He was eager to change the subject, but when pressed to go on, he said: "I lost, not interest, but you feel like you can't do what you did before.

"He told me, 'When Joe Hunt died, I lost not only my friend, but one of my greatest rivals.

And I had lost not only them, but my city.

I lost the game, not my players".

But for the one I lost I was not happy".

I lost but I didn't go to college @sammy.

Not surprisingly, I lost that battle.