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Example sentences for "lost"

Lexicographically close words:
loseth; losing; loss; losse; losses; loste; lot; lota; lote; loth
  1. F= Vessel built by La Salle and lost in Lake Michigan, 159.

  2. This petty warfare culminated in the Seven Oaks affair, in which Governor Semple lost his life.

  3. Was present at the Seven Oaks affair, when Governor Semple of the Hudson's Bay Company lost his life.

  4. In March, 1786, left New York for London on board the Shelburne, which is supposed to have been lost with all on board.

  5. Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed for the island in 1583, and lost one of his ships among its treacherous shoals.

  6. Ch= Farmer of county of Renfrew, Ontario, discovers astrolabe lost by Champlain, 76.

  7. Served in the Silician wars, where lost one of his hands.

  8. Frontenac lost no opportunity of showing his resentment; and the intendant sided with the bishop in the vexed question of selling brandy to the Indians.

  9. Returning to Scotland, devoted himself to the preparation of his work on Upper Canada; lost most of his property as the result of lawsuits; and imprisoned for a personal attack on Lord Brougham in the lobby of the House of Commons.

  10. Hd= Commander at Niagara, lost in foundering of Ontario, 163.

  11. At last every one had arrived, and they lost no time in clambering into the waiting wagons; then away they jogged toward the grove.

  12. Her father had lost much of his money before he died, but she had a "bit of property," she said, and she had sold her little cottage and would leave on the next steamer for America.

  13. But this new bit of economy was lost on Randy.

  14. It must be a terrible thing to be lost in these mountains.

  15. In this wise Jack Corey lost himself from his world and entered into his exile on a mountain top.

  16. He no longer felt that he had lost himself; instead, he felt trapped by the very mountains that five minutes ago had seemed so like a sheltering wall between him and his world.

  17. It was as though those two lost ones lay stark and cold in their midst; as though this woman was looking down upon her son.

  18. We'll have to be at the station before dark, or we might get lost and miss the train, and then we would be in a fix!

  19. And if he were not sufficiently lost in Quincy, he could take to the mountains all around.

  20. Of the girl who was lost she scarcely thought.

  21. It's halfway up the mountain--do you happen to know the young lady that was lost up there, yesterday?

  22. He was lost in a maze of conflicting conjectures whenever he tried to figure the thing out.

  23. The lost couple might be in the cave, but they were not alive.

  24. Now that he had lost himself from the world--buried himself up here in these wonderfully green mountains where no one would ever think of looking for him--there seemed nothing at all to do.

  25. It would be cruel to suspect him of wanting to be rid of Kate and her troubles so that he could sleep, but he certainly lost no time in profiting by her absence.

  26. He proposed another, played wretchedly, and lost No.

  27. In a game one day, Staunton materially damaged his own prospects by playing very tamely and feebly, and testily complained--"I have lost a move.

  28. Lee and Mason, a Petroff, the former should have drawn, but lost on his 75th move.

  29. In New York the ten dollar game arose in this way, receiving Rook, Pawn and three moves, I lost on balance ten games, 5 dollars, and demanded double or quits which I was forced to comply with.

  30. Barnes a very strong amateur chess player encountered Morphy but lost by a large majority.

  31. On one occasion he appeared for the Defendant in an action brought by four persons to recover a sum of money lost by his client in a betting transaction.

  32. Steinitz has been known to grieve much when he has lost at chess; at Dundee, for example, in 1866 after his defeat by De Vere his friends became alarmed at his woe and disappearance.

  33. Harrwitz told the waiter to stop his work, and search the room until he had found Staunton's lost move, and his manner of saying it caused a degree of merriment by no means pleasing to the English Champion.

  34. Well, I'm glad for once I lost the toss," said Warrender, smiling.

  35. As Samson lost his strength with his hair, so these international adventurers, desperate, courageous enough, holding life cheap, became as children under the debilitating pungency of pepper.

  36. I'll go down to remote posterity as the most brilliant detective of this Pratt lost no time in taking a first step in his new career.

  37. He has been bald as long as I can remember him: lost his hair in the wilds of Africa, I believe.

  38. You remember, he said a good case is often lost through being ill prepared?

  39. Well, it was pretty sad the way that Indian lost his trout, and it was curious, too.

  40. Perhaps Eddie was still annoyed with me, for he pushed farther up to other pools, and was presently lost to view.

  41. The lake had no inlet that we could find, and Eddie and I lost a dollar apiece with the guides betting on the shape of it, our idea being based upon the glimpse of the evening before.

  42. I have seen pack burros in Mexico that were lost sight of under their many burdens and I remembered them now, as our guides stood forth ready to move.

  43. I wouldn't have lost that fish for money.

  44. Eddie--long a guest of the forest lost now in the multiple folds of his sleeping-bag--had not stirred.

  45. It may be a sort of general inspection to see if I have added any new features, or lost any of those plucked from the family tree.

  46. In fact, we rather lost interest in our camp, and disagreeable as it was, we decided to drop down the river to Lake Rossignol and cross over to the mouth of the Liverpool.

  47. I don't know; but what he did was this: He lifted up his voice as one mourning for a lost soul and uttered such a series of wails and lamentations as only a hound dog in the deepest sorrow can make manifest.

  48. In fact, we did not realize that we had reached the lake level until the shores on either hand receded, slowly at first, and then broadly widening, melted away and were half lost in the mist.

  49. We had at no time lost sight of the river, and we began to realize the positive necessity of locating our guides and canoes.

  50. We got lost at last, for the way was so short and easy that we were below the camp before we knew it.

  51. Eventually we lost all direction and simply investigated at random wherever any appearance seemed inviting.

  52. They were as excited as if we were long lost relatives who had suddenly turned up with a fortune.

  53. He set the pace, don't you see, till Taylor got as mad as a hatter when he lost his place at the top of the class, and then he said this new boy would have to go.

  54. He swats as though he expected to go next term,' complained Leonard Morrison, who had lost his place in the class that morning through Horace.

  55. Well, I felt sorry for the poor little beggar at last, for we knew he had swatted well over the lesson, and yet he seemed to have lost his wits.

  56. It was worse even than he feared, and as he lost place after place, and went down at last even below the dunces of the form, it hurt him more to see how gleeful the other boys were over his mistakes than to lose his place in the class.

  57. Taylor had lost his place in the class, and so had Leonard, and neither felt very amiable.

  58. In this case the son of farmer A gains by his wife's dowry what his family lost by his sister's marriage.

  59. This want of cohesion all but gave Greece to Persia; indeed during the Persian invasion the independence of Greece was almost lost owing to the selfish neutrality or active treachery of several Greek states.

  60. When the first bow is drawn, Paganini is evidently lost to every other thought, and is revelling probably in a world of his own creation.

  61. The history of the next few years is lost in obscurity, but when the curtain again rises everything is changed and Judah is once more in revolt against the Chaldeans.

  62. Still for a time he held out, but when it was known in the beleaguered city that Nebuchadnezzar was present in person in the camp of the besiegers, the Jewish captains lost heart.

  63. The meaning of the concluding enigma is as profound a mystery as the fate of the lost tribes, and the solutions rather more unsatisfactory.

  64. It is apparently a mosaic, complied from lost as well as extant sources; and dwells upon a few themes with a persistent iteration of ideas and phrases hardly to be paralleled elsewhere, even in the Book of Jeremiah.

  65. Another broken covenant was added to the list of Judah's sins, another promise of amendment speedily lost in disappointment and condemnation.

  66. At any rate, however, and whenever used, the figure could not fail to arrest attention, and to serve as an emphatic declaration that the ordinary social routine would be broken up and lost in the coming calamity.

  67. But when Josiah's religious policy collapsed after his defeat and death at Megiddo, Jeremiah lost faith in elaborate codes, and turned from the letter to the spirit.

  68. He lost all thought of his own honour and his duty to his people in his anxiety to provide against this more immediate danger.

  69. He had long lost all trace of that sanguine youthful enthusiasm which promises to carry all before it.

  70. Perhaps we may say with Orelli that the prophet had become lost in the vision of future blessedness as in some sweet dream.

  71. Similarly the ecclesiastical strife between Rome and Constantinople lost to Christendom some of the fairest provinces of Europe and Asia, and placed Christian races under the rule of the Turk.

  72. A signet ring could not be lost or even cast away without some reflection upon the majesty of the king.

  73. But that station whizzed past without a bit of slack, and the next, and the next; when it came over me that this was the through freight, which should have passed in the night, and was making up lost time.

  74. But I never lost much by these depredations.

  75. I had never lost so much as a roundabout in all my life.

  76. Hence the apple tree, the owls, the illusions, the lost hours--the neglect of fortune and of soul!

  77. Man deliberates, but God delivers,' is said with bated breath by more than sententious Ales, whilst Mrs. Edwards insists that his death is a judgment for his strictures on her lost husband.

  78. This, barefooted Cate was riddling through a wire sieve (the very sieve Breint had brought safely home, though he lost the buyer), flinging away into a separate heap all that was too coarse to pass through the sieve.

  79. A moment she stood dazed, then turned to address the vicar, but he was gone, and talking with a grey-haired old couple of a son who had been lost at sea, who had no grave to be dressed with flowers that Whitsuntide.

  80. A dreadful fear began to creep over him lest William should be lost like his father, and they might never see him again.

  81. Just as some thoughtless youth rushes from the safe shelter of a home too narrow for his ambition, and plunging into the vortex of the untried world is lost for ever.

  82. So it happened that, whilst Rhys and the rest were making merry, William was half the time lost in thought, and one or other rallied him on his unsociability, as they considered it.

  83. Sure the battle's not lost before it do be fought.

  84. William felt half-ashamed of the confession, how he had been lost when quite little, and had seen the stones make faces at him, adding the current stories he had heard, and his fright that afternoon.

  85. We have lost a week, and it's time some of the roots was out of the ground.

  86. Let us be thanking Almighty God that the good food provided for our last dinner under this roof should have become, by His blessing, a thanksgiving feast; for the one supposed dead do be alive again, the one lost do be found.

  87. In losing himself had he lost his childish craving to see once more that wonder of wonders--the big church?

  88. There was a silence on board, but no answer, and I did begin to feel that there was a chance of being lost after all.

  89. The savages themselves were lost in admiration at his stern resistance.

  90. During the first six days of the bombardment, ending October 22nd, the naval brigade lost twelve killed and sixty-six wounded.

  91. The Boers lost much more heavily, and made no further attempt.

  92. Then when the battle had gone on for some hours, the party that had lost most men retired.

  93. The troops lost not a moment in getting under arms, and the seamen forthwith came on shore.

  94. A finger-post was picked up, which we at once supposed had been made use of to direct parties to the ships during winter, if they should happen to have lost their way in a snowstorm.

  95. The Russian ship Gilyak was hit by a shell, and lost several men.

  96. For many years I lost sight of the fraxinella as a border plant.

  97. Somehow, in the depth of the wilderness, the young lady was lost for a short time.

  98. They then lost their sacred character, and became centres of rural festivities.

  99. As I sat on, lost in thought, my great hound's head resting at my feet, the silence was broken by the sound of the old church clock.

  100. I have always found one of the great secrets of bird taming is to keep immovable, till all sense of fear is lost by constant familiarity.

  101. A young widow, who had lost her husband in an accident connected with the blasting of the lime rock, obtained sleep by drinking a tea made from the seeds, I was assured.

  102. For a moment Nana returned to fetch a ribbon or a tie--some lost possession of Bess's.

  103. During his visit to the Abbey little Hals had lost his delicate look, and fine pink roses bloomed on each cheek.

  104. And in that silence and sadness our car, with its backings and turnings and its snorts, and our own voices as we asked our way (for we were more or less lost in Antwerp) seemed to be making an appalling and inappropriate and impious noise.

  105. She had lost her friends, she had lost her equanimity, she had lost everything except her luggage.

  106. You are lost to the very memories of touch and sight, but you are intensely conscious of every sound from the bed, every movement of the sleeper.

  107. The Commandant has lost his hat at Melle (he has been wearing little Janet's Arctic cap, to the delight of everybody).

  108. But as we came nearer to the willows we lost our clue.

  109. I thought it was a Field Ambulance that had lost itself on the way to France.

  110. But at this turn we had lost sight of Schoonard and the great cloud altogether, and found ourselves in a little hamlet Heaven knows where.

  111. A few paces further back they appear as without substance in the dense grey stuff that invests them; their tops are tangled and lost in a web of grey.

  112. Prayer is either the Supreme Illusion, or the Supreme Act, the pure and naked surrender to Reality, and attended by such sacredness and shyness that you can accomplish it only when alone or lost in a multitude that prays.

  113. He fancied that they were going over the old items of the family budget, the thousand trivialities of family gossip that never seemed to be ended and never lost their interest.

  114. And Ruby, with all her assurance and her affluent person, had not lost the Ellwell ailments.

  115. The horse meanwhile galloped away and was soon lost to view.

  116. Nevertheless, we are bound to say that our hero and his friends did not appear to regard their lost condition in this light.

  117. Nevertheless, they felt a strong sensation of aversion to the reptiles, which it was not easy to overcome, and Muggins began to think seriously that being lost in the forest was, after all, a pleasure mingled considerably with alloy!

  118. It would be some comfort to know the name o' the country we're lost in.

  119. Perhaps their indifference arose partly from their ignorance of what was entailed in being lost in the forest.

  120. SHOWS WHAT THE LOST ONES DID, AND HOW THEY WERE FOUND.

  121. The satisfaction caused by this was very great, and even Muggins, in the fulness of his heart, declared that after all there were worse things than being lost in a forest.

  122. Our hero had lost almost the last drop of blood that he could spare with the slightest chance of recovery, and the mere exertion of listening was too much for him.

  123. I do belaive we've gone an' lost ourselves again," said Larry.

  124. I started for here to return the property to you and lost it.

  125. I wouldn’t have lost that horse for a fortune, and it means nearly that to get him safe back where he came from.

  126. He’s mad because he’s lost his place, and wants to scare me off from taking it.

  127. The Speedwell Boys in a Submarine or The Lost Treasure of Rocky Cove An old sailor knows of a treasure lost under water because of a cliff falling into the sea.

  128. I have you to thank for putting me on the track of that lost medal, which I value beyond price.

  129. To him it was apparent that the operator of the racing monoplane had unaccountably lost entire control of his machine, and was headed for sure destruction.

  130. Making sure that he had lost nothing in his flight, Dave put across the yard.

  131. A swift sailing aeroplane had come into view, circled, and was lost to sight over the crest of a distant hill.

  132. I found that property, and I’m honest enough to want to get it right back to the man who lost it.

  133. He lost something, and I want to tell him about it.

  134. If only I hadn’t lost that pocket book, and if Mr. Warner doesn’t get track of me.

  135. But the hillock had lost its attractions for me, and, rising hastily, I dashed down the decline and hurried homewards.

  136. The brightness and sense of joy in the air vanished, and, with its dissipation, came a chill and melancholy wind that rose from the bosom of the lake and swept all around them, moaning and sighing like a legion of lost souls.

  137. You have lost some of your hair, but nothing more.

  138. But as soon as he saw a figure beginning to form--and no doubt it was very dreadful--he lost his head.

  139. I was riding with my husband along a very lonely mountain road in Assam," my informant began, "when I suddenly discovered I had lost my silk scarf, which happened to be a rather costly one.

  140. She has just lost her husband, and he committed suicide under rather extraordinary circumstances in Sicily.

  141. When the last girder was thus successfully placed, no time was lost in linking up the permanent way, and very soon I had the satisfaction of seeing the first train cross the finished work.

  142. For what seemed hours I watched for this ungainly creature to emerge from his covert, but as he seemed determined not to show himself I lost patience and made up my mind to go down after him.

  143. Brock lost no time in putting on his best pace in an endeavour to reach the shelter of a tree which stood some distance off, while I sat down and watched the exciting race.

  144. I lost no time in getting back to camp, the antelope swinging by his feet from a branch borne by two sturdy coolies: and my unlucky friends were very much astonished when they saw the fine bag I had secured in so short a time.

  145. It turned out that he had lost his way back to me, so that it was lucky he found me at all.

  146. We lost no time in getting back to camp, arriving there just at sundown, when my first business was to rub wood ashes into the skin and then stretch it on a portable frame which I had made a few days previously.

  147. From that time I lost all trace of him, though I followed up for four or five miles.

  148. There were four men on board, all nearly dead from thirst; they had been without drink of any kind for several days and had completely lost their bearings.

  149. Indeed, I was beginning to think that I must have lost my bearings and was getting anxious about it, when to my relief I heard a rifle shot about half a mile ahead of us.

  150. At this further outrage I lost no time in telegraphing for the Railway Police, and also to the District Officer, Mr. Whitehead, who immediately marched his men twenty-five miles by road to my assistance.

  151. Mabruki, of course, knew nothing, but volunteered the helpful and cheering information that we were lost and would all be killed by lions.

  152. At first I offer to creep in among the flowers after the lost hoop, but she rejects my offer with a superior "Quelle idee!

  153. I had a boy, I lost him when he was fifteen months old," he says, in a low, strained tone.

  154. She stares at him without speaking, in utter dismay, almost fearing that he has suddenly lost his wits.

  155. She always lost her breath, and sometimes the buttons off her waist, when she danced for her pupils, and she prided herself upon being able to teach every known dance, even to the cancan.

  156. He has apparently not lost a single word of your harangue.

  157. The thought of his lost opportunities as a lover rather weighed upon the worthy dragoon.

  158. The young actress has lost her admirer,--the sergeant has rushed up to the young man.

  159. Then we consulted the cards as to our future, and Heda lost her temper because the oracle declared that she would marry an apothecary.

  160. Zdena seemed restless and troubled, and confessed at last that she had lost her diary, which she was quite sure she had put into her work-basket.

  161. He gazes after her, lost in thought for a moment, then snaps his fingers.

  162. Once we lost each other in the midst of a particularly lively discussion.

  163. This poor boy is not yet nineteen,--a child, unaccustomed to be left to himself, who has lost his head.

  164. All day she had felt as if she had lost something; she could not have told what ailed her.

  165. I am sorry I lost my temper; try to understand me better.

  166. The old dog had evidently lost the deer tracks.

  167. Big Shanty Brook had lost men before, and could again.

  168. She wondered at his patience and his pluck, even when she remembered their many quarrels in which he had lost control of himself.

  169. A hungry eager look stole into the man's face; tears started in his eyes and lost themselves in his matted, unkempt beard.

  170. Aunt Hetty has lost five boys, two by battle and three by licensed saloons, that makes her talk real bitter, but to resoom.

  171. But the truth wuz he had been runnin' down every way, had lost his property and his character, wuz dissipated and mean.

  172. Thinkses I, I wonder them little laws don't git to strollin' round and git lost in them magnificent corridors.

  173. Paul, stretching out his hands; but he lost his balance, and fell into the water.

  174. I heard you lost two when the scarlet fever was ragin' an' I'm goin' to do jest what you do.

  175. And I noticed some of those women acted as if they had lost something.

  176. He said he lost all interest when he found there was to be another weak-eyed towhead in the family, and I guess he was in earnest about it, because he wasn't even curious enough to be at the gate when Mr. Paget came.

  177. Her hair shook down, she lost a sidecomb, and she couldn't find half the ducks.

  178. Before we reached the Deams' I wished that we had carried them as mother told us, for we had lost three, and if we stopped to hunt them, more would hide.

  179. It's father who has lost all judgment and reason.

  180. I lost the next worm without knowing how, and then I turned baby and cried right out loud.

  181. He had lost his hat, his white hair was flying, his horse was in a lather, and he seemed to be talking to himself.

  182. No little lost sheep ever ran this farm so desolate as you will be without your brother.

  183. If ever I seemed sort of lost and sorry for myself, that was a good place to go; it was so easy to feel abused there because you didn't dare touch those peaches.

  184. They said they lost them in our Big Woods.

  185. I intend to lease it for ten years, with purchase privilege at the end, so that if I make of it what I plan, my work will not be lost to me.

  186. Two of the ducks we had lost swam before us all the way, so we knew they were alive, and all they needed was finding.


  187. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abashed; abroad; absent; absorbed; abstracted; adrift; astray; away; bemused; bewildered; bothered; bygone; confused; consumed; damned; dead; deep; defunct; departed; discomposed; disconcerted; dismayed; disoriented; dissipated; distracted; distraught; disturbed; doomed; drain; dreaming; dreamy; ecstatic; elsewhere; embarrassed; engrossed; eroded; expended; extinct; faraway; forfeit; forfeited; forgotten; forlorn; godless; gone; graceless; guessing; hopeless; incorrigible; incurable; inoperable; irreclaimable; irrecoverable; irredeemable; irremediable; irreparable; irretrievable; irreversible; irrevocable; lost; meditative; missing; mooning; musing; napping; nodding; nonexistent; oblivious; orphan; pensive; perturbed; preoccupied; rapt; reprobate; ruined; shrunken; spent; spout; squandered; stray; terminal; transported; unconscious; undone; unregenerate; upset; used; vanished; wasted


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    lost again; lost brother; lost cause; lost characters; lost child; lost friend; lost his; lost love; lost sheep; lost sight; lost soul; lost souls; lost their