How To Use Lost In A Sentence

I used to think the worst feeling was losing someone you love. But, I was wrong. The worst feeling is the moment you have lost yourself.
I try to teach them a bit of Cockney but it's a lost cause. The Sun
Early plans for a bit of work were killed off when he lost his job.
Though the change was slight, he saw that they had both lost a little of their babyishness.
When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed. John Green

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If they have stopped doing it then they will have lost a lot of time. The Sun
His eyes have a certain amount of little-boy-lost about them and his slightly nervy, jumpy presence also helps him appear a lot younger than his 43 years.
Humus being highly colloidal, has the ability to adsorb and retain for future plant use many of the ions such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, phosphates and ammonia which might be leached from the soil and lost in drainage.
Lost in nostalgic souvenirs I ambled past les belles, snapping a few more photos along the way. Kindness of strangers
John Terry booked after a rash challenge which nearly lost Holdsworth his head.
Regardless of how skilled she knew she was, the extreme risk and danger of what she was about to undertake wasn't lost on her.
The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
He said the operators of two steel fishing vessels recently reported losses of HK $50,000 a month while the operators of two sampans said they had lost around HK $20,000.
The town hall lost two bollards and a litter bin, railings, and a large stone pedestal has been cracked.
When Mary Ann wasn't home, he could almost always be found in his video aerie, lost in the soothing ether of the Quasar. BABYCAKES
The pace of new auto loans also lost momentum from a month earlier.
It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
In fact, little by little the term necromancy lost its strict meaning and was applied to all forms of black art, becoming closely associated with alchemy, witchcraft, and magic. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
As a consequence, the important benefits of collation and comparison of data from different sources are lost.
They argue that this is the only way in which the Tories can recover lost support.
'tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
The distinction between ranking and classification is an important one, even if it is lost on many in higher education.
He stared out at the assembled media and uttered the immortal phrase: 'We have lost a game we should have won. The Sun
Holography not only maps the intensities of the light, as do normal diffraction patterns, it also encodes information about the phases of the light that is otherwise intrinsically lost.
They found striking similarities between Argonaute structures and proteins that happened to exhibit a particular kind of "cooperative binding" known as allostery. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Her schemes backfired on herself,and she lost her boyfriend forever.
The Warriors lost a battle despite outshooting and mostly outplaying their opponents.
By the third generation, the original language is lost in the majority of immigrant families.
Like many other charophytes desmids have no flagella; they were lost at some point in the group's evolution.
After an initial burst of enthusiasm for jogging, I gradually lost interest.
And I do believe that that bumpkin 's flower was even finer than the one you lost to me, all those years ago. STARDUST
Dave couldn't find his passport at the airport and then there were further complications when Fiona lost her baggage.
They are completely unaware of who this monument celebrates or what its significance is; yet the image's resonance is not lost on its audience.
The opposition boycotted and sabotaged an election in February which they would certainly have lost again. Times, Sunday Times
Pondus limi, inde aworden is flæsc pund fyres of thon read is blod and hat factus est caro; pondus ignis, inde rubeus est sanguis et calidus; pund saltes of thon sindon salto tehero pund deawes of thon pondus salis, inde sunt salsae lacrimae; pondus roris, unde aworden is swat pund blostmes of thon is fagung egena factus est sudor; pondus floris, inde est uarietas oculorum; pund wolcnes of thon is unstydfullnisse _vel_ unstatholfæstnisse pondus nubis, inde est instabilitas thohta mentium; pund windes of thon is oroth cald pund gefe of thon is pondus uenti, inde est anhela frigida: pondus gratiae, id est thoht monnes sensus hominis. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
Consequently, the young pig must be provided a large amount of energy from fat or carbohydrate in the colostrum in order to survive.
The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
Rosa Lee Ransby and her seven grand- and great-grandchildren lost their home a week before Christmas. Boston.com Top Stories
Bigger discounts on equity and debt issuance to get them away risks seeing investment cut, borrowing reduced and jobs lost. Times, Sunday Times
The designers designed a terrific pirate galleon and a thrilling Lost Boys' hideout.
There was not another second to be lost. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
Central Asian desert and grow cotton, which tsarist Russia lost access to when the American south, its supplier, began fighting the American north in the Civil A Conversation with Tom Bissell
What’s getting lost in the rancor is that we are Americans (apologies to the non-American posters here). Think Progress » Obama bumper sticker fuels violent political road rage in Tennessee.
With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests. GetReligion
When a first-class work of literature is made into a movie, one always feels that some essential quality has been lost: an engagement with language, a reflectiveness, a guiding intelligence.
When he played poorly, which happened too often, the Bears lost, often in lopsided fashion. Around the Pac-10 Conference
Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight. Virginia: the Old Dominion
The old soldier never lost his military demeanor.
This appears to have led to his death after he lost control of a scooter on a bridleway above the Wharfe's steep banks near his home. Jimi Heselden obituary
The news orgs, by contrast, are doing this out of laziness and a hopeless addiction to portraying lefties as a kind of perennially-disappointed lost tribe who will never, ever find their way out of the wilderness. News Orgs: The Left Is Upset With Obama -- Even Though It Isn't
According to a police spokesman, the driver lost control of the vehicle after his tar-laden trailer began fishtailing.
Pat spent that evening and night with long-lost friends and had the time of his life.
She turned a deaf ear to our warnings and got lost.
I've lost ten pounds since I started this diet.
Previous workers have attributed these differences to changes in rheology, i.e. brittle faulting in sandstones v. more ductile folding and faulting in dolostones.
Despite her illness, she had lost none of her enthusiasm for life.
If the answer is No, all unsaved changes are lost.
A shuffling street drinker with a string of convictions over eight lost years, she is now notorious as the woman who exposes herself in public.
They want compensation from Manchester Airport for money they predict will be lost from visitor revenue.
I have lost two inches in my waist through exercise and healthy eating, but that hasn't given me any curves.
Her photo album was saved, but she lost everything else in the fire.
They called C4, which is Mexico's emergency dispatch system and advised them that they had been lost for two days, were stranded, dehydrated, and were going to light a signal fire to attempt to get some help," said Cal Fire spokesperson Roxanne Provaznik. Knowledge is Power
His critics say he should resign because he has lost the moral ascendancy to govern and to save the plummeting economy from collapse.
That represents something of the heart of God as expressed in Genesis 3, because now we see the divorce papers being finalized as God disannuls the relationship He had with humanity and as the man and woman sort out memories of a lost opportunity. FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST
I've lost count of the times I've heard that joke.
Four goals down with 20 minutes to go, Jock Nugent's side looked to be fighting a lost cause.
Known as chemurgy, the science lost much of its ‘reason for being’ after WWII when the petroleum industry redirected its attention from the war effort to commercial products.
You're lost and alone in a dark cavern. Christianity Today
A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away.
Now, two weeks after her visit to Paris Crater, missing Hannah already but knowing that the girl must be safe in the firmary, Ada found herself lost in thought during the carriole ride over the hills to home. Ilium
Tourists often get lost and stray into dangerous areas.
I am black but comely at this moment: because the cyclostyle has blacked me. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The idea of being a farmer had lost its charm for me by this time.
It's as if an angel made a divine appointment to show me what a kete of kindness can do for a flock of lost little lambs.
The gardener strolled off, his golden gown soon lost in the golden expanse of grass, accompanied by several small animals which capered at his feet, circled his head or hopped off and on his shoulders.
During fever a large quantity of fluid is lost in perspiration.
In fact, the mark ties with that of the 1976-77 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, an expansion team that lost the first 26 games of its existence, the longest losing streak in major American professional sports.
The problem was that Eric decided to go on a macrobiotic diet to cleanse his system and he lost so much weight you could see his skull under his skin.
The Golden Bears had lost to Arizona and Southern California in disheartening fashion before beating rival Stanford and then the Aggies USATODAY.com
Lots of us have suffered similar tragedies, and it's natural to want to do something to remember the person we lost. The Sun
The section consists of calcareous shale with intercalated sparse limestone beds, dolomitic shales, and some dolostone beds.
The captain, having lost two brave fellows of his troop, was afraid of diminishing it too much by pursuing this plan to get information of the residence of their plunderer.
In recent decades, though, especially sine the end of Soviet tyranny, the safe-haven idea has lost cogency like an unwound watch running down.
But Mühlemann is clearly pushing hard to restore the group's lost luster.
Economics will not stop Europe's politicians complaining when jobs are lost in their own backyard.
Both have lost their sense of smell and say this stops them enjoying their food. The Sun
Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. RVM
Give up is completely lost, persistence will have at least a glimmer of hope.
she never lost control of herself
Try telling that to folk who bought into the bullion fad five years ago and have lost a third of their money since then. Times, Sunday Times
The study assesses the therapeutic effects of colostrum (the first milk secreted at the end of pregnancy - it has less albumin and lactoprotein in it than milk secreted later) on diarrhea.
Instead, we get the "kerplunk" scene we knew we were getting from the end of last issue, Luthor revealing that he's actually kind of a bastard after all, members of Infinity II declaring twice in two pages that it sure is a good thing they still have their powers, and a lost-in-space scene that once again fails to advance that plot. Week 35: That Most Dangerous of Animals
The lost projects, an inevitable consequence of life at the artier end of architecture. Times, Sunday Times
Eric lost his footing and began to slide into the pit.
As a sunbow laughs and is lost on the waves that range220 A Nympholept
The plane took off for LA, lost an engine as it climbed, and crashed just off the runway.
He could not recall Plauen having talked much about the modern Empire, except to label it a weakling, lost in fantasies of its past, battling for life in a hostile age, constantly stalked by hostile intrigues. The Swordbearer
The Indian Prime Minister, V P Singh, lost a vote of confidence in the Indian parliament.
Crawfish King and Hot Space attempted to challenge their unbeaten rival on the backstretch but were no match for Lost in the Fog, who was ridden out after gaining a commanding five-length lead entering the stretch.
Much of this "pleasurist" writing is now lost to us, known only from police accounts or the bibliographical records of the famous collector of erotica H.S. Ashbee. Undefined
ZUCCHINI The sight-saving plant pigment called lutein is lost in cooking; so is vitamin C. BROCCOLI Eat it raw, and you'll get a hefty helping of potent plant nutrients that lower your risk of blood clots, plus vitamin C, and an enzyme that may demolish precancerous cells. Thestar.com - Home Page
Both rely on something lost being found, a sheep in the first parable and a silver coin in the second.
That is why I think it hasn't got favourable reviews here, because something gets lost in the translation.
(That last fact doesn't have anything to do with the Lost Pines, but it's the kind of kitschy "giant ball of twine" thing I adore, so I've included it anyway.) Joy Preble: Not Lost at All: Texas Pines, Debut Authors, and the World's Largest Gingerbread Man
The company, which is the largest carrier of airfreight for other airlines, lost its way early last year.
And Mr. Buckner's best-known moment—a game-ending fielding error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, after which his Red Sox lost to the Mets in Game 7—can be seen as sort of the ur-"Larry David moment. Showing His Enthusiasm
A good name is easier lost than won.
He fulfilled his duties conscientiously, but his support for the proclamation of the district as a city lost him his seat in 1950.
The woman, who lives in the west Clacton area, lost her 6-month-old daughter to cot death.
By Otto, February 8, 2010 @ 3: 55 pm try Dunedoo or Wee Waa in NSW, but I suspect the former would be lost on those undeucated in the Australian outdoor toilet. Cheeseburger Gothic » Prepping for Pucka.
Weipe agricultural union chairman Frans Nel said drought was wiping out the financial resources of farmers who lost millions of rand in winter production because of black frost and a plague of mice. ANC Daily News Briefing
The cause of God's people, and of that holy religion which they profess, is a righteous cause, otherwise the righteous God would not appear for it; yet it may for a time be run down, and seem as if it were lost. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
A red-roofed settlement lost in the green hills of the southern Charente, around 500 kilometers from Paris, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne's main feature is not immediately visible. Visiting Charm-Guaranteed French Villages
The strikers may have won the battle, but they lost the war.
The contents of the kyack meant _life_ to herself and to Ben, -- deliverance and safety when all seemed lost. The Sky Line of Spruce
His request was rejected and he subsequently lost his job as a salesman. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly, a bout of angina may be protective; but the protection may well be lost with recurrent angina.
He lost interest in much of his research.
It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard Waverley
Tragically, the second version was also lost in a fire.
Slowly, Dummy regains both his voice and his confidence, and finally, in a fairy-tale ending, even his identity when King Richard recognizes him as his long-lost godson.
True friendship is like sound health.The value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
In addition, if the scar tissue forms in and around the fingerlike ends of your tube called the fimbria, the tubes may actually seal shut, in which case all chances for natural conception are lost. Getting Pregnant
If the businesses lost money the answer was to give them more subsidy. The Global Marketplace
He is a great actor and seeing him go from lost rogue to confused son to driven billionnaire to a conflicted hero is a blast.
At the end, she decided to stick with the Main Street, so as not to be easily lost.
Her voice broke and she buried her face in her hands, the memories that seemed to have been lost for some time finally made themselves known in her mind.
But John Gittins has never lost sight of the fact that man must work in harmony with nature.
The access-floor system, together with floor diffusers, allows modifications to the layout of the space to be completed with very little lost work time.
But naked, she was thin and somehow unappetizing, and for reasons I can't articulate, looking at her breasts six inches from the bread, I lost my appetite.
For being marginally wide at the last turn he lost a single point, but otherwise his three sections of driving were clean.
In Mexico this month, although seeded two, she lost to Carla who is ranked ten places below her.
Dad lost his job and we had to live off welfare.
Their songs were born to dwell in long-lost cabarets and quaint bars that fall just short of seediness.
The man, who was dealt a severe blow on the farming front last weekend when he lost his entire herd of healthy livestock to foot and mouth, bids to bounce back at Aintree tomorrow.
Last year a man lost the sight in his left eye after he answered a knock at his door and was hit by a stone fired from a catapult.
It was the elder son, he said, who just could not accept the generosity and graciousness of his father in welcoming back a lost and wayward brother.
He was so drunk that he had lost the power of speech.
The DPJ has campaigned almost exclusively on bread-and-butter economic issues, appealing to voters who feel the LDP has lost touch with average families.
The well-equipped vessel was lost with a full suite of gear, including VHF, echo sounder, plotter, autopilot, gill and trammel nets and a complete toolset.
I found it hard to follow what the teacher was saying, and eventually I lost concentration.
The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain.
The immunity to disease passed through the mother's colostrum called ‘maternal immunity’ usually lasts for several weeks in the puppy's system.
As the song reaches a crescendo, she drops to her knees, lost in the raw emotion of her thoughts. Times, Sunday Times
If you have lost enchantment, you are liable to divisiveness, intolerance, and aggression.
I am a lost little sheeple looking for some guidance out of the rocky ravine that is my ignorance.
Young fish, young crabs and molting crabs have lost shelter and refuge from their predators.
- Preston Zimmerman - Kapfenberg - went the distance but lost 0-2 at home to Rapid Wien. Du Nord
Where Ancylostoma is also endemic, differential diagnosis may require larval culture although the treatment is similar.
Kicking off in 1944, the film opens with the type of prologue that could have been lifted straight from the Indiana Jones escapade, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
If it did, I would be justified in dismissing arguments against free trade on the grounds that many who make such arguments are at risk of losing their jobs or have actually lost their jobs. Getting Ricardo Wrong, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
We've lost three family members in one swoop. The Sun
An external source of reference is often helpful when a whole family feels itself "lost" in grief in this way. Know Your Own Mind
We deserved to win the Senior Cup last season and lost it and now things have evened up.
Better an empty sea than a lost election! The Times Literary Supplement
_Solus_ was lost through haplography ( 'fulua solus': the elongated 's' form common in manuscripts would have facilitated the error) and _tristis_ interpolated to restore the metre. The Last Poems of Ovid
The lost girl was finally reunited with her parents.
We who live in the overcivilised world know that we have lost something. Times, Sunday Times
There are worries that cultural misunderstandings can lead to lost sales. Times, Sunday Times
Once a regime has lost the support of its police and armed forces, revolution is almost inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
That's because he very nearly lost the lot through a catalogue of misfortune three years ago. Times, Sunday Times
Are cows which provide colostrum for your calves tested for bovine leukosis?
Just when I thought I had lost the letter forever, it blew right back into my hand!
As we enter what is sure to be a long period of uncertainty—a gantlet of lost jobs, dwindling assets, home foreclosures and two continuing wars—the downside of stress is certainly worth exploring.
A calf that spends the early hours of life licking a dirty udder and hind legs of a cow trying to find a teat is more likely to succumb to disease than a calf in a clean environment that got an early feed of quality colostrum.
City of York Council says it has lost 119 places in nursing and residential homes after closures in the past year.
The classical music scene languished during the war as symphony orchestras and opera companies lost musicians to military bands.
Even the biting wit of this film has something of lost innocence about it.
The minister preached a sermon on the parable of the lost sheep.
A friend is easier lost than found.
If anyone cares to remember, they lost the last election, but they decided to work the refs.
If that is acceptable, why not create a clone of a child who was lost in a tragic accident?
Soz, I've lost the receipt.
Her credibility has lost out to her desperate desire to be liked, even if it is by bull-necked honkers in shirts made of the stars and stripes.
In turning it to a danceable 8/4 rhythm they completely lost the appealing lilt of the song.
God loves us deeply, intensely, and he cares about even the most incredibly lost and stubbornly unrepentant sheep.
His battered old hat had completely lost its shape.
Sampdoria lost their unbeaten record with a 2-1 home defeat against Genoa.
For good measure, he also lost his doubles match. Great Sporting Failures
One patient dropped out due to intercurrent illness, one patient was lost to follow-up, and one patient left the study due to personal reasons.
They drifted off course and they lost their moral compass so badly it was always going to come to a head. Times, Sunday Times
Clostridium (meaning spindle shaped bacterium) botulinum comes from the soil and makes spores (survival packages) that are very hard to destroy.
Stalin was insistent that the war would be won and lost in the machine shops.
I've still got one of the candlesticks but I've lost its companion.
You don't need to have had a colostomy to find yourself toeing the line. PROSPECT HILL
Most bothersome is during this week of Kanye, Serena and Wilson with virtually every news site asking are we rude/have we lost our civility, is that people from the stature of James Carville to presumably educated people writing comments, are ranting, raving and name calling. Carville takes aim at latest tell-all on Bush
It was originally built of brick and rubblework, but since the restoration in the seventeenth century it has lost its primitive character. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
`Some of you gentlemen are lost in the pestiferous miasmas of the swamps of sin. GOODBYE CURATE
The speaker lost his thread halfway through the talk.
So when I was asked to do walk-ons in Edward Lee's Header and the movie of my own book The Lost I said sure.
The channel has lost its amateur status and become a grown-up, professional outfit.
Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes! The Maids of Paradise
He had lost three important things in a short span of a day.
The world is so big but I met you, while the world is so small that I lost you in the end.
He devoted himself to the reconstruction of lost orthographies and grammars, developed a distinctly Japanese poetics. 井の中の蛙 » Renaissance Japan » Print
All is lost save honor.
Graceful re-establishment of session without losing data after connection is unexpectedly lost.
Other footballers find a way to reintegrate themselves into the sport and recover their lost reputations.
Last week, the Australian navy took family members of the lost crew members out to the wreck site, where they held a ceremony and dropped wreaths into the water.
The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.

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