Sentence examples similar to practically a lost cause from inspiring English sources

It was a lost cause.

That's a lost cause.

Is it a lost cause?

Is this a lost cause?

"I think it is a lost cause.

Europe may be a lost cause.

But it was a lost cause.

Iran is obviously a lost cause.

Sensing a lost cause, he changed tactics.

The figs were a lost cause, too.

It may be a lost cause.