Sentence examples for lost a portion from inspiring English sources
(He had also lost a portion of his right ear, to the clench of Tyson's teeth).
"As a result she lost a portion of the Hispanic vote that could very easily have been hers, it was there for the taking".
On those occasions when our animosity melted and turned golden, I brimmed with such comfort that death lost a portion of its power.
"He was a giant," said Dr. Jacques Grosset, a professor at the Center for Tuberculosis Research at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who lost a portion of his lung to tuberculosis.
He had lost a portion of a foot in the Iran-Iraq war and, without ready access to a prosthesis, had spent two decades walking in pain, he said, using cloth stuffed into his shoe in place of a prosthetic device for the missing part of his foot.
She has lost a portion of her housing benefit because she's deemed to have too many bedrooms.
Do you lose a portion of your audience when you leave that in?
Legalising the use of drugs would be tantamount to losing a portion of every generation to addiction.
On the contrary, I will lose a portion of my income and gain nothing of real value in return.
"Anytime anyone looked through, I knew we would lose a portion of it," said Tiffany Colannino, the collection's archivist.
Also: On November 1, recipients of SNAP benefits will lose a portion of their monthly allowance when a portion of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act expires.
