Sentence examples for lost the thing from inspiring English sources

Then came shopping, coffee at Jenners, and suddenly "realising with a terrible lurch that I'd lost the thing".

"When something's lost, the thing you love most is what you miss," he said, "and that was tennis".

But when his $140 million in pay came to light, a compensation package he had angled for, Mr. Grasso lost the thing he loved best: his job as casino greeter.

Still, Mayer wonders, over and over: What if you lost the thing you wanted because you weren't ready then, but you're ready now? "Moving on and getting over, I'm not the same, it seems to me," he sings.

"In the aftermath of the loss," Snyder writes, "we now see an array of purple fans struggling to understand the same contradictions that haunted the Green and Gold: Favre likely was the reason they lost the thing, but he was the major reason they were in the thing to begin with".

"We almost lost the thing," he said.

"But given what we lost, the things we have seem more precious".

A lot of people have lost the things that are most precious to them".

"We were taught that we lost the things that made us African.

"He has lost the things most dear to him -- his freedom, his liberty, his family, his sons," Mr. Frenzen said.

Meanwhile, the threat of losing the thing is forever looming.