Sentence examples for only just lost from inspiring English sources
He only just lost a race for attorney-general in 2005.
The KMT only just lost the last presidential race, in 2004.
But maybe they won't; having won the House and only just lost the popular vote, they may blame Romney for not being conservative enough.
They have beaten St Helens twice this season and only just lost their qualifying semi-final 10-8 in a brutal encounter at Knowsley Road.
It was a central tenet of Zionist belief that the Jews were returning to their ancestral home; Chaim Weizmann, first president of Israel, only just lost his struggle to have the 1917 Balfour Declaration refer to the right of the Jewish people to "reconstitute" their homeland in Palestine.
Tracy falls down the stairs and pretends to have only just lost her babies and blames Becky.
The Lions failed, only just, losing to Port Adelaide in the grand final, but succeeded, thankfully, in keeping the atrocious idiom "four-peat" out of the sporting lexicon.
The industry's opponents spent only $500,000 but lost by just 7,000 votes.
The Clippers, with just 3 wins, have only lost two straight.
At the end, it cuts off — no more "soft and only, lost and lonely" — just Barlow screaming "You!," then silence.
The unravelling of Sharapova's game was stark, as under the lights the Russian had only lost a total of just two games in her two previous matches.
