Below you will find example sentences with "heavy losses". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Heavy Losses in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: losses
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 26.9 words

Words in this phrase

heavy losses

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • heavy can mean: Having great weight. Common word
  • losses can mean: plural of loss Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

after suffering heavy losses early on 1× again inflicted heavy losses and fled 1× and incurs heavy losses to each 1× been incurring heavy losses in agriculture 1× could crystallise heavy losses for vodafone 1× explain the heavy losses 1× face of heavy losses 1× have suffered heavy losses to newcastle 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a german heavy 1× after a strike 1× after licking its 1× after suffering heavy 1× all these months 1× aston villa have 1×

Common sentence endings:

18 wheel trucks 1× advancing israeli forces 1× along the frontline 1× and job losses 1× and local elections 1× apply heavy pressure 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

russian 5× suffered 4× inflicting 3× military 3× ukraine 3× attack 2× resistance 2× down 2× government 2× pressure 2× sites 2× centre 2×

Related phrases

heavy rainfall heavy rain heavy rains heavy water heavy metal heavy showers heavy snow job losses heavy load heavy drinking

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around losses:

job losses 8×

Just before it in the phrase index:

heavy load heavy drinking heavily influenced heavily damaged heat waves heat transfer

Just after it in the phrase index:

heavy metal heavy rain heavy rainfall heavy rains heavy showers heavy snow

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

heavy rainfall heavy rain heavy rains heavy water heavy metal heavy showers

Same ending:

job losses

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "heavy losses" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as after suffering heavy losses early on, again inflicted heavy losses and fled, russian, suffered and inflicting stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with heavy rainfall, heavy rain, heavy rains and job losses, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with heavy losses

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Failure could crystallise heavy losses for Vodafone as Mr Ambani continues to apply heavy pressure. (15 words)

The apprehensions are that such prospected data boosts profits and incurs heavy losses to each user. (16 words)

Aston Villa have won two in the league, but have suffered heavy losses to Newcastle and Liverpool on the road. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

A German heavy mortar firing in defense against a U.S. attack on 22 November 1944 in the Hürtgen forest Attacks by the 8th Infantry Regiment on Rother Weh Creek hit heavy resistance and were repulsed with heavy losses. (39 words)

After a strike that killed dozens — possibly hundreds — of Russian soldiers this week, one of the deadliest since the invasion began, the Russian military itself acknowledged the problem, using it to explain the heavy losses. (35 words)

The government has come under pressure for its handling of the crisis, and from businesses keen to recoup heavy losses from the shut-down to stave off closures and job losses. (31 words)

Example sentences (20)

A German heavy mortar firing in defense against a U.S. attack on 22 November 1944 in the Hürtgen forest Attacks by the 8th Infantry Regiment on Rother Weh Creek hit heavy resistance and were repulsed with heavy losses.

All these months later, I often break down when someone asks me about it or I think about the losses, the heavy losses that so many other people have endured.

The government has come under pressure for its handling of the crisis, and from businesses keen to recoup heavy losses from the shut-down to stave off closures and job losses.

The army liberated new sites Khalifin inflicting the enemy huge losses and foiled their infiltration to recover those sites where they again inflicted heavy losses and fled.

However, the Romans broke through the thinned out line in the centre and defeated both wings separately, inflicting severe losses; but, not without taking heavy losses themselves.

Israel suffered heavy losses and Nixon ordered an airlift to resupply Israeli losses, cutting through inter-departmental squabbles and bureaucracy and taking personal responsibility for any response by Arab nations.

Failure could crystallise heavy losses for Vodafone as Mr Ambani continues to apply heavy pressure.

After a strike that killed dozens — possibly hundreds — of Russian soldiers this week, one of the deadliest since the invasion began, the Russian military itself acknowledged the problem, using it to explain the heavy losses.

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After licking its wounds following heavy losses to Russia in 2014, Ukraine implemented sweeping reforms to its military force structure and training to enable the resistance we are seeing today.

After suffering heavy losses early on in the conflict, the Russian air force has avoided venturing deep into Ukraine’s airspace and mostly focused on close support missions along the frontline.

Aston Villa have won two in the league, but have suffered heavy losses to Newcastle and Liverpool on the road.

Farmer, Venkat Reddy, said that for the past three years they have been incurring heavy losses in agriculture and the state government is not coming to their rescue.

Investors suffered heavy losses as reports questioned Milton’s claims that the company had already produced zero-emission 18-wheel trucks.

It comes as a British Ministry of Defence intelligence update claimed that Russia is now deploying 60-year-old armoured vehicles to the frontlines in the face of heavy losses.

It was a clear defeat for Moscow, although the delicate operation was carried out without any heavy losses on the Russian side and no other territory was given up.

Russian President Vladimir Putin vows to press on with his war in Ukraine despite heavy losses and the coming winter.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a snap summer general election on Monday, a day after his centre-left Socialist Party suffered heavy losses in regional and local elections.

The apprehensions are that such prospected data boosts profits and incurs heavy losses to each user.

The military wing of Hamas, which has ruled the small, densely populated territory for 16 years, said its fighters were inflicting heavy losses and damage on advancing Israeli forces.

The Skrull refugee planet had all of its air stolen by the Kree, plus heavy losses from the vicious attack.

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