How to Use losing in a Sentence

losing

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  • That was its first losing week in four and just its third in the last 12.
    — al, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The losing team has failed to reach 100 points in the last two meetings.
    — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 27 Oct. 2019
  • That turned out to be the losing side, which earned him a six-month prison term at the war’s end.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • For the third straight season, the Bears went on a losing streak of four games or more.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2021
  • And for the second time, the Tigers found themselves on the losing end of the game because of it.
    — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The first team to seven points wins, and the losing team runs suicides.
    — Aaron Reiss, kansascity, 1 July 2018
  • And of the teams with the 11 lowest payrolls in the majors, just two (Rays and Guardians) have non-losing records.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022
  • Graves added a goal and an assist in the losing effort.
    — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Since then, the Wildcats have lost 16 in a row, the longest losing streak in the Power Five.
    — oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But Prescott hadn’t been on the losing end of a lopsided game such as that.
    — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 21 Sep. 2017
  • The losing side will surely drift this way as the hours pass on Wednesday.
    — Gregory Krieg, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The defense will keep it close though in a losing effort.
    — The Baltimore Sun, baltimoresun.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • But on a losing team that couldn’t get him the football, Sanders made faces and bellyached.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Arguably the best pass rush in the NFL was on display in a losing effort.
    — Tyler Dragon, Cincinnati.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Assuming your team isn't on the losing end of them, upsets are some of the best parts of sports.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2017
  • March 10: With a 4-2 loss to the Rangers, the Stars lost their sixth straight game, the longest losing streak of the regular season.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Being a very good player on a losing team isn’t rare in sports.
    — Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Gohmert and Roy were among the half-dozen Texas Republicans on the losing side.
    — Paul Cobler, Dallas News, 17 Mar. 2020
  • It’s also the longest losing streak since that year, as well.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Whatever the verdict, the losing side is likely to pursue the case to the state Supreme Court.
    — Kurtis Alexander, SFChronicle.com, 30 May 2018
  • The benchmark gauge dropped for a fifth straight week, its longest losing streak since June 2011.
    — Washington Post, 6 May 2022
  • In the present, the group fought and clawed — albeit in a losing effort — against a scrappy Commodores squad.
    — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2023
  • No other teams are close; the third-longest losing streak belongs to the Vikings, at four games.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Overall, Wall Street limped to the finish line of its third losing week in a row on Friday.
    — al, 19 Aug. 2023
  • White, 72, also was on the losing side four times, Foreman, 68, three times.
    — Chris Tomasson, Twin Cities, 30 July 2019
  • The Crimson played their best in the losing effort against Maryland.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • That was the first time this series the losing team scored something other than two goals.
    — Tim Hackett, SI.com, 22 May 2018
  • Texas got 20 points from Ariel Askins and 17 from Jatarie White in a losing effort.
    — Todd Engle special To The Star, kansascity, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Sam Reinhart recorded two power-play goals for the Panthers in a losing effort.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024
  • While the flag was up, the court was still contending with whether to hear a 2020 election case, with Justice Alito on the losing end of that decision.
    — Jodi Kantor, New York Times, 16 May 2024

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