Sentence examples for is lost but from inspiring English sources

"Something is lost — but perhaps something can be gained".

If the viewer already knows the score, suspense is lost, but so are the interruptions.

"My son is lost, but I am proud of what he did.

"You want to turn back the Australian boats?" The irony is lost, but – yes.

Could it be that many Ukrainians have accepted that not only Crimea is lost, but the Donbass, too?

October 2008: Purdy's case is lost but the high court gives permission to take it to the court of appeal.

The dialogue is lost, but the score stands on its own, with a series of meditative scenes replacing narrative action.

The original paper is lost but, to mark the Armitt's centenary, an expert in fungi, Ali Murfitt will present a summary in April.

Agrippa's autobiography is lost, but an extensive geographical commentary that he wrote influenced the extant works of the geographer Strabo and of Pliny the Elder.

The first half of Festus' work, too, is lost, but a further abridgment of it by Paul the Deacon in the 8th century survives.

Her letter to him on the subject is lost, but we can gauge her anxiety from Heidegger's response, which is tentatively dated "Winter 1932/33".