“I go to great lengths to prevent the loss of my valuables.”

“Insurance can be taken out to safeguard against any loss of earnings.”

“The city's baseball team would suffer an unexpected loss to their rivals.”

“Being the loser of the hard-fought contest was a bitter pill to swallow for Sammy.”

“Melanie wouldn't be dating a loser like him. Besides, he's not her type.”

“After five minutes of Man of La Mancha, it was obvious that the movie was a loser.”

“It encases their loserdom in a carapace of purity and righteousness.”

“The question of the viability of two tracks in Dublin has been a bone of contention for many years, but Harold's Cross is not a lossmaker.”

“The company is persevering with two fast craft this season, even though the introduction of a second vessel last year proved a lossmaker.”

“The company is buying lossmaker Star Markets, which operates 53 stores mainly in the Boston area.”

“In fact, his losings were so monotonous that the diversion had ceased to be exciting and he had abandoned it.”

“Machine downtimes due to damaged journal bearings mean considerable losings to the affected enterprise.”

“They called the game, raked up the winnings, or paid the losings, without changing a muscle of their features.”

“The lostness of the key caused her to search frantically for hours, unable to find it anywhere.”

“Eno's joking seems to me a great act of courage: a way of facing lostness and learning to live with it.”

“This transmission is also ideal for burnout, depression, chronic fatigue or a sense of lostness or grief.”

“The loserness of his attitude and lack of effort led to his constant failures in life.”

“After failing to secure a job for the third time, John felt trapped in a perpetual state of loserhood, doubting his abilities and future prospects.”

“American consignors, on the other hand, were not moving their lossmakers on.”

“Such awards seem excessive both by absolute standards and by comparison with losers in the litigation lottery, who get nothing.”

“Following the fortunes of a gang losers, wasters and thieves on a near-derelict council estate might not seem like a barrel of laughs.”

“If one of those unions walks away, there will be winners and there will be losers.”

“Despite four consecutive quarterly losses, Xerox is expected to make money before the year is out, continuing a turnaround credited to Mulcahy.”

“Meanwhile charges and commissions continue to be deducted at source, adding to investors' losses.”

“It suffered huge losses in the wake of September 11 and its shares have nosedived.”