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Example sentences for "serious loss"

  • He is about taking a large farm in a different part of the country with a view to marriage, a circumstance which just now occasions me much anxiety of mind, as he will be a serious loss to both your lordship and me.

  • This is a great loss to him--a serious loss.

  • It is not lawful to cooperate with intemperance, unless this is necessary in order to prevent the commission of a greater sin by the other person, or a serious loss to oneself.

  • Thus, if one steals the tool of a poor farmer, which is of little value in itself but which brings on him a serious loss, one is responsible for the loss as well as for the tool.

  • This was a serious loss to the Army of the Tennessee, which was also short by two other divisions that were on their veteran furlough, and were under orders to rendezvous at Cairo, before embarking for Clifton, on the Tennessee River.

  • In attempting to conduct the lieutenant-general and staff back by a short route, Newhall lost his bearings for a time, inclining in toward the enemy's lines too far, but regained the proper direction without serious loss of time.

  • He was a serious loss to Whitby and its neighbourhood, the prosperity of which he had done more than any other man of his time to advance.

  • He has, however, been a most useful man in the sphere which he has chosen, and his retirement from public life would be a serious loss to the Conservative Party, and to the country at large.

  • The invaders set fire to the grist mill, which was totally consumed, and this was a serious loss to the settlement generally.

  • This was a serious loss to the Confederacy, as they had suffered the loss of one general and had incapacitated another from service.

  • This was a serious loss to the Confederacy.

  • This he did, and destroyed the factories, which were a serious loss to the Confederates, for they were used for the manufacture of cannon and other munitions of war.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serious loss" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apply himself; everything was; firmly fixed; giving offence; heard him; meet him; octave higher; poor fellow; por eso; private life; quitted the; religious profession; serious accident; serious attack; serious consideration; serious danger; serious disease; serious injury; serious loss; serious matter; serious obstacle; serious work; take each; that date; white plume; white women