Sentence examples for a losing race from inspiring English sources

Martin's ability to finish the opera he has been working on becomes a losing race against time.

Together, they depict a losing race against time, one likely to be replicated in coastal zones around the world as sea levels rise.

THE newly minted mayor of San Antonio, fresh off a surprisingly large election victory and rushing between meetings, has paused to reminisce about a losing race in which he first earned his chops.

Eicos argued that engineers working on better spaceships are in a losing race with engineers working on smarter robots: While propulsion and life-support technology are improving, it seems fair to predict that the development of near-human-intelligence Artificial Intelligence will precede the advent of interplanetary human spaceflight.

Seriously: the AP knows it's in a losing race.

As William Johnson, he ran a losing race for Congress in Arizona in 2006.

Correct: "I think Bob is about to lose the race" -- a lost race makes sense.

Not much doubt that those missing races will find their way back into some of the cards soon, but, still, it's a lost racing day.

She only lost races when a real mistake was made".

She lost a state senate race last year 54 46, but apparently she impressed in a losing effort.

In the Kentucky Derby, he couldn't get the lead and ran a ground-losing race in the middle of the track before pulling away at the end.