Sentence examples for are losing for from inspiring English sources
verb
To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons.
- If you lose that ten-pound note, you'll be sorry.
They also find that "teams react rationally to changes in the current score" by attacking more when they are losing, for instance.
"I'm going to challenge my school board colleagues that if we don't extend this contract, let's open up our personal checkbooks and cover the amount we are losing for extracurricular activities," said one member, Juan Jose Lopez.
"What we ask is that nothing be lost by accident, without a real sense of what we are losing for what we are gaining, and that we have a vigorous debate about this part of our heritage".
Short-term help Paul and Sue Rutherford had hoped to be awarded a DHP at least for short-term help in making up the £13.50 a week they are losing for having a third bedroom.
Consider the magnitude of what we are losing: For all of human history, ever since the first primates who would one day call themselves human climbed down out of the trees and set foot on the African savanna, the stars overhead were a nightly occurrence.
