Sentence examples for became a lost cause from inspiring English sources
But the game became a lost cause early, and with the Mets trailing, 10-1, in the fourth inning, Bell volunteered to be Manager Bobby Valentine's emergency pitcher.
"Nic Cage became a lost cause by following up a marvellous movie, Mike Figgis's Leaving Las Vegas, with a bunch of commercial crap.
Gen. James Terry, and his deputy Ken Dahl to achieve a balance among competing factions in the south, but this became a lost cause, Chandrasekaran says, once Ahmed Wali Karzai, one of the plan's chief Afghan architects, was murdered by an aide.
Though some might lose their edge over time it's a while before that jar of coriander seeds becomes a lost cause.
The brothers became talismans for a lost cause.
In his own day a martyr to a lost cause, Zheng Chenggong became a hero to all sides in modern Chinese politics, although to each for a different reason.
It became a testament to martyrdom, and the tragic souvenir of a lost cause.
