Sentence examples for objects lost from inspiring English sources

(See a related list of objects lost and found in the city's taxicabs).

Still, the laws overwhelmingly favored those who possessed the land over those who possessed the objects lost upon it.

Hundreds of plastic bags, stored in shipping containers parked on a corner of the site, hold personal objects lost or hidden by the slaves, or taken from them.

His group has helped the government set standards for its restitution policy and has compiled inventories of the thousands of cultural objects lost by their owners.

Many Iraqi objects lost in the 1991 looting were removed from sites and understaffed museums that had no careful recording in photographs and catalogs.

But there's a touch of sadness even with flotsam like this - objects lost or discarded from another life somewhere, never to return.

In that fable, our heroine walks into a wood where objects lose their names.

Once bound, the objects lose their purpose: the TV can no longer be watched, the plug can no longer provide electricity.

Gradually, as the landscape grows prairie flat, natural objects lose their dominance and industrial ones take their place: pipelines, pump stations, piles of gravel.

An event consists of objects' losing or acquiring various properties and relations; thus, Caesar's death was an event that consisted of his losing the property of being alive, and John's seeing Mary is an event that consists of John's and Mary's coming to stand in the relation of seeing.

In Marx, on the other hand, we have an analysis of the fetishism of commodities (Marx 1867, 444 461) where objects lose the solidity of their use value and become spectral figures under the aspect of exchange value.