Sentence examples for have practically lost from inspiring English sources

"We have practically lost all our artistic patrimony," said mayor Alberto Silvestri.

In doing the president's bidding, Gazprom officials have practically lost sight of the investment needs of the company — modernization, maintenance and expansion — and of the need to compete.

Ukraine's acting president has admitted his government has practically lost control of the east of the country, with his security forces "helpless" to stop a rolling takeover by pro-Russia gunmen.

The term "cult movie" has practically lost all currency these days, as the phrase seems to be applied randomly to mainstream behemoths like The Matrix as to the Pink Flamingos of this world.

One sees a similar effect at the Cornish garden of Tregrehan (the subject of a laudatory article by Roy Lancaster in the April issue of Gardens Illustrated), where a yew walk, planted in 1845, has practically lost its foliage but remains a living, venerable object - a sort of ancient monument in the green.

What's become obvious is that the investment community has practically lost confidence, and patience, in the company's management to take complete advantage of the gargantuan opportunities within its reach.

According to a report in the Harrisburg Leader, "she had practically lost her reason, by virtue of the terrible strain she had been under to graphically portray her part".

Among the 6-oxo MTPs, the most active compounds were those with stabilizing electron-rich groups, such as acetamide (compound 1), phenylurethane (compound 2), and ethylurethane (compound 3), whereas compound 4, harboring a strongly electron-withdrawing p-nitrophenylurethane moiety, had practically lost antitrypanosomal activity.

The funerals have practically stopped.

They have practically no clothing.

"I have practically the biggest part".