How To Use Lost cause In A Sentence
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I try to teach them a bit of Cockney but it's a lost cause.
The Sun
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My patron saint was Saint Jude, the patron of lost causes.
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He was a devoted fan of Hearts, perhaps in keeping with his quixotic pursuit of lost causes.
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On the field, the promoted team already look a lost cause.
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At a time when the continent is still considered a lost cause, they had every reason to welcome the president's messianic message of hope.
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But Bolton boss Sam Allardyce, that great rescuer of lost causes, has given the barrel-chested striker some of his self-respect back.
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Trying to interest my son in classical music is a lost cause.
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April 24th, 2010 10: 39 am ET why does the gop put spin on everything this president has already said? president obama has already told the american people this bill stops future bailouts. what is it that the repubs can not understand here? they need to help, lead or get out of the way. president obama was ELECTED to be our leader NOT the republicans that would love to keep us going backwards and ignore the state of disaster that bush left for the democrats to clean up. the gob is a lost cause an will never be the power sourse again for america. pat c.
Hutchison says GOP standing firm on financial reform bill
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Cub fans are everywhere, proudly proclaiming their loyalty to what outsiders perceive as a lost cause.
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Maybe it was always doomed to be a lost cause.
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It's seems that their marriage is a lost cause in which possess the husband and wife not real affection for one another.
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Other lawyers said he was crazy to gamble millions of his firm's hours and resources on what looked like lost causes.
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It was a lost cause.
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They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
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He was a devoted fan of Hearts, perhaps in keeping with his quixotic pursuit of lost causes.
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He was a devoted fan of Hearts, perhaps in keeping with his quixotic pursuit of lost causes.
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When it comes to her tennis, she is bright enough to construct a point, strong enough to wallop a point and fast enough to rescue a lost cause.
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Have the American people decided that hellhole of a country is a lost cause?
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At present it feels like a lost cause, and the SNP seems directionless, ennuied and underachieving.
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After 12 years as a journeyman jockey, he decided riding was a lost cause.
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I used to try to get him to do some exercise but then decided he was a lost cause.
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Not by them are impaired the dignity and infinite pathos of the Lost Cause.
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Like his rebel ancestor, Buchanan is fighting a lost cause with prideful determination despite overwhelming odds.
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This is one of the primary reasons why lost cause situations deserve greater attention and should not be left in the political wilderness.
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But when it comes to the lost causes, the inevitable setbacks, the small defeats, the crowds thin out quickly.
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Mr. Ballance is indulging in a bit of the old ‘lost cause’ revisionism here.
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I see why you are Hillary supporters …. just as she has been selfish to the democratic party by prolonging a lost cause in an attempt to trigger anarchy by overturning the rules she agreed to and the votes of many. cindy barba
Carter: Obama-Clinton ticket unlikely
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Hours of travel and back-to-back meetings may leave little room in your schedule for a travel workout — but exercise isn't a lost cause.
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Tried to get a pint at lunchtime only to find the entire bar stuffed with weirdo Liberals wearing kaftans and woolly sweaters, who had come all the way up from Cornwall to spend a week on a lost cause.
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He spent ten months trying to recover but knew after four that it was a lost cause.
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He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot — he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common — but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses.
This Side of Paradise
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His view of a mighty power fighting a lost cause for all the wrong reasons would be validated by the succeeding decade.
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Four goals down with 20 minutes to go, Jock Nugent's side looked to be fighting a lost cause.
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Do we just cast them aside and forget about them and think they're lost causes?
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For many years he supported the development of the electric car, but he now thinks it's a lost cause.
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Haight Street in San Francisco is a place that knows how to cling to lost causes.
US midterms: Nancy Pelosi faces a struggle in her Democratic California heartland
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It does the world no good for members in marginal seats to put districts at risk over unimportant things, or lost causes, but casting tough votes on the big issues is what members of congress come to Washington to do.
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The centers are a lost cause, and pre-fire prevention and abatement is obviously the most bang for the buck.
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Nearly destitute of food, clothing, and ammunition, with enlistments expiring and men abandoning what looked like a lost cause, the Continental army was about to fade away.
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If, like death and taxes, people tolerate you because they are stuck with you, you're a lost cause.
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On the field, the promoted team already look a lost cause.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like his rebel ancestor, Buchanan is fighting a lost cause with prideful determination despite overwhelming odds.
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He was omitted because of the cap on team strengths in the competition, but will ride tomorrow in what looks a lost cause against the champions.
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In American English, careen is certainly a Lost Cause, since its use in this erroneous sense is recognised in dictionaries, but for British English it may not be too late to rescue it.
The meaning of “careening” « Motivated Grammar
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He was a devoted fan of Hearts, perhaps in keeping with his quixotic pursuit of lost causes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriot -- he suspected that being Irish was being somewhat common -- but Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses.
This Side of Paradise
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That would at least be in line with his long-established championship of lost causes.
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He was rather sceptical about being an Irish patriothe suspected that being Irish was being somewhat commonbut Monsignor assured him that Ireland was a romantic lost cause and Irish people quite charming, and that it should, by all means, be one of his principal biasses.
Book 1, Chapter 1. Amory, Son of Beatrice.
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He is old enough to have felt the disillusion of lost causes such as the Spanish Civil War and the left's brief flirtation with Communism.
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For many years he supported the development of the electric car, but he now thinks it's a lost cause.
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He was a devout catholic and was always writing prayers to his patron saint, Saint Rita of lost causes.
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Do we just cast them aside and forget about them and think they're lost causes?
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The game looked a lost cause when the score reached 60.
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He is a lost cause, as his dislike of religious / mystical tendencies is well known.
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His hunger for lost causes, chasing overhit balls, was immense.
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Poor Churchill seems a lost cause, so leashed to the animal that he'll never escape, no matter how valiantly he fights on, but could he help a lonely young widow in the House of Commons library?
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It was a tough fight – Boudicca's militias killed thousands of Roman soldiers, at St Albans, London and Colchester – but a lost cause.
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I am a member of a entire subclass of not-so-young-anymore men, living in large cities, who are precariously close to being worrisome bachelors, problem sons, borderline lost causes.
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My ninth graders were the kids the system had given up on - the dropouts, the lost causes.
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They do not want to expend energy in what, to them, is a lost cause.
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Do we just cast them aside and forget about them and think they're lost causes?
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