Sentence examples for we lost trying from inspiring English sources

"There is a manner in which you can lose and I think we lost trying to win," he said, although those who remained behind, people he professed not to care about, would have replied that all that mattered was Blackburn lost.

I remember once we got lost trying to find a party, and at one point we drove by a house, and one of the cars had a Mystery Spot bumper sticker, and I said, 'That has to be where the party is.' " So even the bumper sticker, which they finally acquired on their visit, has gravitational powers of a sort.

Jonathan Morgan, who rents out two rooms of his home in a sleepy neighborhood east of downtown Savannah, Ga., through the site Airbnb.com, wanted to leave by 7 30 p.m. for a blind date, but we got lost trying to find the place.

How often do we get lost trying to make ourselves comfortable, completely ignoring a chance at genuine human interaction?

Word had it that this area was home to one of the last baobabs in northern Oman, but we'd got lost trying to find it and had picked up Reesi, a local farmer, as a guide.

Recalling the night of the theft, Edwards says: "We were a bit lost trying to find our way back to our hostel.

When we first moved here, I even got lost trying to get out of here.

I always get lost trying to read Trollope.

Driving round and round, lost, trying to find the pool.

My fellow Seattleites become hopelessly lost trying to navigate around our tortuous city streets.

It started to rain and he got lost trying to get to his car.