But once he was dead, the security police "lost their purpose," he said.

The journey had lost its purpose, and the end of the river was no longer their goal.

These have lost their purpose as the environment around them changed.

His hand reached halfway to Quentin's and seemed to lose its purpose.

Many people here say that as a nation, too, Japan seems to have lost its purpose.

By the 19th century, the wall had lost its defensive purpose and was dismantled.

For a moment, he felt as if life had lost its purpose.

In recent years, this magnificent room had lost its purpose.

In the following centuries, the castle lost its military purpose and became a ruin.

By the 1920s however it had lost its social purpose to become an urban design type.