Sentence examples for lost adopt from inspiring English sources

If the baby is abandoned instead of being lost, adopt them if they want or ask you to be their mommy/daddy.

Qaddafi claims to have lost an adopted daughter in the raid.

"With SARS, no time was lost in adopting that crisis-response mentality.

But Warhol gained more than he lost by adopting mechanical means of production and reproduction in the 60's.

— David Gallagher The Web We Lost Anil Dash |  On the philosophy underpinning Facebook, Twitter., etc, and what Web users have lost by adopting it.

He's been rejected by his biological family, and lost his adopted one … However difficult this may be to watch, Jesse's ongoing abasement served a narrative purpose.

Kashtanka is a hungry and ill-treated animal who gets lost, is adopted by a kindly man, and then is reunited (by her own choice) with her abusive original owner.

The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done by Sandra Newman 387pp, Chatto & Windus, £10.99 Halfway through this looping, fragmented tale of lost parents, adopted brothers and enigmatic sisters, poetic parallels and staggering coincidences, you feel the urge to stop reading and sketch out some kind of dysfunctional family tree on the flyleaf, for clarification.

Our view is that latent 'crime topics' capture features of the behaviors and situations underlying crimes that are often impractical to observe and almost completely lost when adopting formal crime classifications.

What is it that drives people to try something new, given the time lost with adopting new equipment and new methodologies?" "I did it for a number of reasons.

And so "there are more votes to be lost by adopting a more overtly right-wing agenda than there are to be gained".