Sentence examples for exactly losing from inspiring English sources

If Platnick had finessed the heart jack at Trick 3, he would have made his contract exactly, losing one spade, two hearts, one club and a spade ruff.

Are they exactly losing out in international trade?

Ford didn't exactly lose interest in me.

What "The North" means is not exactly lost, but is in the process of being simplified.

Carlota Santana presides over the sort of friendly, modern flamenco in which dancers don't exactly lose all semblance of control.

Ah, the homely lasagne: a dish which, if not exactly lost in translation has, in the grand British tradition, been considerably mangled.

The film-makers aren't exactly lost in the woods, but nor do they ever give us much sense that they know or care in which direction they are going.

The Kings reached the Stanley Cup finals in amazing fashion, the controversy at the end belying the fact that the Coyotes didn't exactly lose by one bounce, as Allen Muir points out on SI.com.

Then, at 31, he persuaded James Gordon Bennett Jr. of The New York Herald that he could make headlines finding David Livingstone, who was not exactly lost but who hadn't been heard from for a while and was fading from the public memory.

With the second series of The X Factor enjoying only modest success in the US, and audiences for his two ITV talent shows in decline, Cowell hasn't exactly lost his deposit but neither did he hit the (Wonga-sponsored) jackpot.

While the government didn't exactly lose the Snipes case, it wasn't a pure win either.