"When Varius died, he lost his only visible means of support."

What's got me is that with the strawberries being consumed I've lost my means of space-and-time travel.

Many of the small-holders lost half their means of support.

This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.

He had lost his means to support his family and accumulated debt.

As soon as he lost his means of support, that energy began to reappear.

Was he about to lose his only means of entry into the Zivver World?

Farmers as well as fishermen have lost their means of earning an income.

It is a warning to governments that they must not lose their means of action or regulation.

With the harvest hard upon them they had lost half their means of reaping it.