Sentence examples for we sadly lost from inspiring English sources

One only wishes that Umberto Eco, whom we sadly lost last week, was still around to parse this issue, because Eco, long before he was king of the airport bookstore, was an emperor of signs, one of the world's leading linguists and semioticians.

If medical schools follow suit and begin teaching these "spiritual medicine" fairy tales in an age when "evidence-based medicine" is supposed to be our credo, then we have sadly lost our way.

Godbeer calls his book "in part an elegy for a world of love, and even the possibility of love, that we have sadly lost – let us hope not forever".

It seems that we have very sadly lost yet another from a time when musical giants walked the earth.

"We spent time with couples who had sadly lost children and we did our research.

Chief Superintendent Martin Evans, of the Central Motorway Police, West Midlands, said: "The three people who have sadly lost their lives – we have a 32-year-old female and very sadly two brothers aged 10 and four.

The yearly or quarterly refrigerator clean often alerts us to items we've completely forgotten about, and which have sadly lost their inevitable fight with Time.

"Rochdale and Britain have sadly lost one of their great MPs, and I think we can safely say there will never be an MP quite like Cyril Smith again".