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
• That, in a way, they've been drafted to the losing team.
  — Lane Florsheim, Marie Claire, 14 Aug. 2015
• The losing team has failed to reach 100 points in the last two meetings.
  — Chris Wassel, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 27 Oct. 2019
• The losing side in 2016 is still struggling to come to grips...
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2017
• 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
• The walk up the steps to the Royal Box after the game, the losing team’s faces locked in grief, the winners’ wreathed in smiles.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 May 2017
• 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
• Singer allowed one run across five innings in a losing effort.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2024
• Sam Reinhart recorded two power-play goals for the Panthers in a losing effort.
  — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 26 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024