Los Angeles had evidently lost its pull.
Eventually I got older, moved away and, like most of the magical things of youth, the mall lost its pull on me.
The budding sense that some readers had a year ago that Gawker was losing its pull in the news media was nipped by the return of Mr. Sicha.
If the UK doesn't play its part, it will lose its entire geopolitical pull.
It's imagining Earth losing its gravitational pull and starting to fall".
And Alex Salmond cannot easily claim the union has lost its emotional pull, not after he's seen the ease with which so many Britons, including Scots, draped themselves in its once terminally unfashionable colours.
Bay Area VCs agree that Silicon Valley may be losing its gravitational pull after all.
"Fifty Shades of Grey," which was No. 1 last weekend but saw a more than 70% decrease in ticket sales in its second week, continues to lose its grip on moviegoers and pulled in an estimated $3.5 million on Friday.
A body as small as Mars, with a weak gravitational pull, will quickly lose its atmosphere to space without constant volcanic replenishment.
Part way through "Squalor Victoria," the formerly poised Matt Berninger lost it, pulling at his hair and breaking from his steady baritone to wail, "SQUALOR VICTORIA, SQUALOR VICTORIA".
