Sentence examples for gone loses from inspiring English sources

A gravely eloquent sentence about a bereaved mother's perception of her son's image everywhere, at every age – "They were all equally present because they were all gone" – loses some of its force when four of the 10 words are italicised.

"They're gone, lost.

He had survived, but his trailer was gone, lost in the blast thicket.

Then she was gone, lost in her own world again.

I watched it go, lost in recollection.

"I got it going, lost it, got it going, lost it and then got it going," Woods said.

But Armstrong regrouped and kept going, losing no time over all.

"I think a lot went lost," General Hertling said in a telephone interview.

He said: "I got it going, lost it, got it going, lost it and then got it going.

Currently touring: Go lose yourself and catch a show.

Oh yeah, I'll go "lose my memory".