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Example sentences for "lose ground"

  • To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground.

  • Sweden still languished in an effectual parade of hostilities against the house of Bran-denburgh; but the French interest began to lose ground in the diet of that kingdom.

  • While the interest of Britain thus triumphed in Spain, it seemed to lose ground at the court of Lisbon.

  • If it can be shown that the sector where our line was thinnest was the sector in which we could best afford to lose ground, it will have to be admitted that, in the main, G.

  • We knew we had to lose ground, probably a good deal of ground, and decided to lose it where it mattered least.

  • To lose ground, to fall behind; to suffer gradual loss or disadvantage.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after various; beautiful lady; being full; date from; dead animals; each platoon; eight fathoms; large species; lose ground; lose heart; lose sight; lose the; lose their; lose them; lose time; mit der; named because; not going; nothing else but the; peaceful solution; prevented from; remove from; still remained; then gave; violent hurry; you let