LOST in a Sentence

Learn LOST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

420 example sentences for LOST, such as:

1. I've lost the check for my bag.
2. I lost my bag in the ensuing chaos.
3. The art of good conversation seems lost.
4. Ask about the ring you lost he may have found it.
5. The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.

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 Meanings and Examples of LOST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lost
 a.  not knowing where you are and how to get to a place
 a.  not gained or won
 a.  no longer in your possession or control
 v.  past tense and participle of LOSE
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  His mother had been a talker in her day, but after her "trouble" the sound of her voice was seldom heard, though she had not lost the power of speech.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  It was the first scene of open anger between the couple in their sad seven years together, and Ethan felt as if he had lost an irretrievable advantage in descending to the level of recrimination.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
3  They had sorely missed the excitement of the drills while away, and they counted education well lost if only they could ride and yell and shoot off rifles in the company of their friends.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  The red furrows and the gashed red road lost their magical blood color and became plain brown earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  If they showed no aptitude for any of these trades, they became field hands and, in the opinion of the negroes, they had lost their claim to any social standing at all.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  And, my dear, they stayed out nearly all night and walked home finally, saying the horse had run away and smashed the buggy and they had gotten lost in the woods.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  This strategic retreat in good order was not lost on a woman present or observed by a man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Now she had lost and, greater than her sense of loss, was the fear that she had made a public spectacle of herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  She had never seen a bad woman before and she twisted her head and stared after her until she was lost in the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  There was something about the tragic melody and Lorena's lost love that mingled with her own excitement and brought a lump into her throat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Ladies, there will pass among you two of our gallant wounded, with baskets and-- But the rest of his speech was lost in the storm and tumult of clapping hands and cheering voices.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  And neither expression was lost on the man who stood beside them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  Once a man had been her beau, she never lost the conviction that he belonged to her, and all his good deeds redounded to her credit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  If we win this war and have the Cotton Kingdom of our dreams, we still have lost, for we will become a different people and the old quiet ways will go.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  His uncle was disabled in the civial war; he lost his left arm.
17  The art of good conversation seems lost.
18  Ask about the ring you lost he may have found it.
19  Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
20  All the treasures of the earth would not bring back one lost moment.
21  Sometimes u need to look back, otherwise u will never know what u have lost in the way of forever searching.
22  I lost my bag in the ensuing chaos.
23  I've lost the check for my bag.
24  She has lost her battle to retain control of the company.
25  Messengers brought news that the battle had been lost.
26  The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war.
27  Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
28  True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
29  Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the great war.
30  The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.