Sentence examples for lost a girlfriend from inspiring English sources

"I lost a family to this job, I lost a girlfriend to this job.

He briefly explains that he lost a girlfriend to a tragic accident (which drove the narrative of "Fools Rush In"), but beyond that he says only that he has been in a "transitional phase," picking tomatoes in California.

He eventually goes AWOL in Belgium, paints murals for the Red Cross, bootlegs Cognac and loses a girlfriend to Marlene Dietrich.

There's his uncle Kawayida, a meter reader for the local energy company and a master storyteller, who loses a girlfriend and his youngest child to AIDS.

The fat one, Lawrence Krauser's "Lemon," is awful, the kind of first novel in which a callow youth loses a girlfriend and endures, with much self-pity, a boring office job.

I can relate to the pain of losing a girlfriend.

In it, he is passive to the point of losing a girlfriend he probably would have liked to have kept.

I lost a few girlfriends due to the leg.

I lost a few girlfriends due to the leg – they said even though I'm a nice guy, they didn't want to have a physical relationship with someone with one leg.

They are people who "abuse etiquette in pursuit of recreation," says Mr. Schoenberg, who is also a creative director on the Cloudveil account, and they may have "lost a job or a girlfriend or boyfriend" in their quest for fulfillment outdoors.

At the end of his junior year, he split up with a girlfriend and lost a student-body election.