Sentence examples for have once lost from inspiring English sources

An impulsive gambler he is rumoured to have once lost £13m in a three-day session in Las Vegas.

Bellin claims to have once lost nine thousand four hundred and ten dollars in a single pot, certainly a professional-sounding number.

It was the culmination of a recovery for an actor who admitted he had once lost his way.

After having once lost to Borg, 6-1, 6-1, when he was 16, Wilander went on to win seven Grand Slams.

But another city, Memphis, appears to have the distinction of having once lost the highest percentage of its population for an American city of any size.

Lili had once lost a pair of silver bracelets, stolen by a man who claimed to be from Shanghai, like her.

He recalled that as a graduate student he had once lost a wrench in a machine this way: "It cost me a year".

Ms. Mickus had once lost a lot of money in the tech bubble, and the prospect of losing their down payment made Mr. Mickus nervous.

Since the 1960s, several new employers' associations have arisen, and the Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI; 1922) has regained powers it had once lost, such as the authority to reject government-proposed trade boycotts.

After putting out a student survey that found 96% of students would rather have their ID on their phone and 75%% had once lost a card, the campus gave him funding to build a prototype.

I walked there and took my place with the new faculty as writer-in-residence at the same university where I had once lost an election for editor in chief of the school newspaper.