Sentence examples for lost painfully from inspiring English sources

Two weeks earlier, Djokovic had lost, painfully, to Rafael Nadal in the semifinals of the French Open.

For Hamburg it is a chance for catharsis – in last year's semi-final they lost painfully to Werder Bremen.

The ruling Socialists in Spain lost painfully to the centre-right opposition, while in Poland, the left was simply crushed, with 75% of the vote going to conservative parties.The pattern of misery for the left was powerful enough to trump the adage that deep recessions punish governments in office.

With a Champions League qualifier in Turkey on Tuesday, followed by a difficult assignment at Everton (a fixture they lost painfully last season) on Saturday, this is a busy period of their season where hard results evidently count for more than beauty contests.

Elsewhere, the bottom four clubs all lost, most painfully Caen, who were a goal up on Auxerre and on their way out of the bottom three until, with four minutes left, Rémi Gomis's needless backpass was intercepted by Ireneusz Jelen to score; Jelen then netted again, brilliantly, three minutes later to leave Caen coach Franck Dumas spitting mad.

Despite losing, and painfully finding, the needle a couple of times, and burning the ends of the cut ribbons to seal them instead of singeing them, I finish the shoes and all is well.

But this week, Enron's lost glory became painfully evident.

The monarchies in Malaysia and Cambodia have painfully lost influence to populist commoners.

I lost the argument painfully, and that humiliation has made me properly suspicious of film facts.

Scientists hypothesized that these biological changes could explain why most obese dieters quickly gained back much of what they had so painfully lost.

But they were ravenous and almost every one of them eventually succumbed to intense hunger and regained the weight that was so painfully lost.