Sentence examples for lost the killer from inspiring English sources

Conan Doyle informed Scotland Yard of his theory, telling the inspector, in an echo of Holmes, "No time is to be lost"; the killer, dubbed "the Bluebeard of the Bath," was subsequently caught and convicted in a sensational trial.

He acknowledges that with almost three months of training build-up, there is a danger of losing the killer edge.

We've had a change of prime minister, we've lost the Ashes, and killer diseases have attacked British farms about a dozen times.

We lost that killer instinct — that ruthlessness Mr. Jones alluded to when he said that mothers would never make good traders.

I feel for Killer Mike... but he's already lost the battle he's fighting.

Yankee fans love to look back on the good stuff and keep it on permanent replay, but there's never enough of it, because these losing nights, the killers, keep coming back and take over in our minds.

She feels in constant danger of losing the plot: "Victims, witnesses, killers, [detectives], all frantically spinning stories to keep the world the way they want it, dragging them over our heads, stuffing them down our throats".

The Los Angeles Clippers shot 77percentt and scored 46 points in the first quarter, then lost their killer instinct but still led all the way in earning their third straight NBA victory, 106-96 over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday.

But Eubank has always said that he lost his killer instinct after the fateful fight with Watson.

Even "Losing My Mind," the killer ballad from "Follies," whose narrator is questioning her mental stability, remained lofty and safely tranquilized.

We lost some killer ideas because of rights issues and things like that.