Sentence examples for lost of the from inspiring English sources

Both Euclid and an older contemporary, Aristaeus, composed treatments (now lost) of the theory of conic sections.

The last of Aristophanes' plays to be performed in his lifetime, Wealth (388 bce; Greek Ploutos; also called "the second Wealth" to distinguish it from an earlier play, now lost, of the same title) is a somewhat moralizing work.

Writer collects things because over the years she feels like she has lost of the things that have been important to her. "Throw it out," her mother often said.

At the turn of the fourth and third century B.C., the Greek explorer Pytheas of Massalia wrote the first account, now lost, of the curious people who lived at the northwestern edge of the known world.

It wasn't difficult, unfortunately, to follow Trachi's furious flight; even if no one had seen him, there were conspicuous traces of the blood he had lost, of the scrapes the chains had inflicted on tree trunks and rocks by the side of the road.

The author outlines the concepts of "re-wilding" habitats by introducing species that have been lost, of the "assisted migration" carried out by foresters who prepare for climate change by planting trees at the current limits of their ranges (and, indeed, the gardeners who transplant cuttings and seedlings from one part of the planet to another).

The Mets lost, of course.

All the lost plays of the Athenians!

FR,f, the lost frame of the right view.

The crew lost control of the aircraft.

In 2010, Democrats lost control of the House; in 2014, they lost control of the Senate.