Sentence examples for had rather lost from inspiring English sources

The critics had rather lost interest in him by then.

The Three O'Clock were signed to Prince's Paisley Park imprint, although by the time he signed them, the Paisley Underground's psychedelic swirl had rather lost its vivid colour.

Admittedly, the whole "send the Terminator back through time" schtick had rather lost its impact by the point Jonathan Mostow's Rise of the Machines reared its ugly head a decade ago.

Apart from one menacing run to the bye line by Bakary Sako, Wolves's promising start in front of a near capacity crowd had rather lost its way by the break.

"I, your Majesty's most dutiful subject," the letter read, "had rather lose my life in your Majesty's cause than in any man's else, and I hope it will not be long ere you conquer France".

Comes from a stable that has rather lost its way this season.

I've rather lost count of the score, but suspect Darling's book will nudge The Rest of World v Brown into 137-nil territory.

So the judge found the clarity to express his view, deftly, that football is a sport that may "have rather lost its way".

A more likely explanation is that Britain's northern cities, since the collapse of traditional industry, have rather lost their way and need striking new structures to express a new identity.

After Gove's latest Nazi comments, the prime minister told Sky News: "To hear the leave campaign today sort of comparing independent experts and economists to Nazi sympathisers – I think they have rather lost it.

Back when I was their age, I would have rather lost two to four fingers to hypothermia than willingly gotten out of a body of water in which I was sure there were exactly zero sharks.