Sentence examples for practically lose from inspiring English sources

This study evidences that although the track can practically lose its lateral stiffness as a consequence of the failure of 7 consecutive fasteners, the vehicle stability would not be necessarily compromised in the flawed zone.

Whip one around a figure-eight track and you'll practically lose your eyeballs from the g forces, but throw it into a straightaway and it'll take that lawnmower engine ten years to get you between points A and B. Still, a go-kart is a blast to play with, and so we'd say that a sports car has to be quick enough to be amusing but not necessarily jet-like in a straight line.

I live in an old Brooklyn factory building, my husband is a painter, and while the floorboards are so rustic and old you could practically lose a foot between some of them, the view out the windows is straight into some of the most unsightly architecture in the borough (as far as the AIA guide is concerned).

"We have practically lost all our artistic patrimony," said mayor Alberto Silvestri.

As the great French feudatories' power grew at the expense of the king's, the old marquisats were practically lost in the great duchies or countships.

"After I practically lost the ring, it was a race against the clock to get it on Jen's finger," he recalled.

"The soil in the area covered by this volume of ash deposits will be practically lost," said Wilfredo Vera, engineer from the University of Chile.

Like most pieds noirs, he never returned, after independence, to the country of his childhood, so that Algeria — and indeed a whole world of Francophone North African experience — could be experienced only in the mind, always practically lost.

Ukraine's acting president has admitted his government has practically lost control of the east of the country, with his security forces "helpless" to stop a rolling takeover by pro-Russia gunmen.

The term "cult movie" has practically lost all currency these days, as the phrase seems to be applied randomly to mainstream behemoths like The Matrix as to the Pink Flamingos of this world.

One sees a similar effect at the Cornish garden of Tregrehan (the subject of a laudatory article by Roy Lancaster in the April issue of Gardens Illustrated), where a yew walk, planted in 1845, has practically lost its foliage but remains a living, venerable object - a sort of ancient monument in the green.