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How To Use Mislaid In A Sentence

  • Shelver said while some court delays were understandable, others such as mislaid dockets were "purely errors". ANC Daily News Briefing
  • What followed appears to be a series of lost or mislaid documents, delays, and contradictory information. Times, Sunday Times
  • What followed appears to be a series of lost or mislaid documents, delays, and contradictory information. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was also a half hour of exasperation when I temporarily mislaid my handheld somewhere in the hospital.
  • He received no reply; seldom can a mislaid letter have had so costly a sequel.
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  • So if you are serious about discovering the whereabouts of your mislaid accounts, now is the time to act. Times, Sunday Times
  • Could I borrow a pen? I seem to have mislaid mine.
  • Oh dear, I've mislaid my glasses again.
  • Apart from yesterday's incidents with the abusive ‘customer’, lost child and mislaid credit card, the Live 8 protest didn't seem to make much difference in our unregarded little corner of Chavland.
  • If, by chance, you are interested in joining one of these groups but have mislaid your form, you can collect one in the Church Porch.
  • And therein lies the tragedy of the public's mislaid focus on this one annual meeting.
  • Billions and BILLIONS of dollars are, what (?), simply "mislaid"? Organized crime is America's (secret) 3rd Political Party.
  • Mr. Toulmin Smith tells us: "The link which has been broken and mislaid was the" English Guild "(or" gild, "as seems the more correct spelling). Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
  • And for God's sake tick the box on the form requesting an acknowledgement of your submission -- that ought to at least help cut down on the number of 'mislaid' responses. Nothing To Hide, Nothing To Fear?
  • His luggage was mislaid so he had to buy all new clothes.
  • I appear to have mislaid my jumper.
  • Over 2,000 new green boxes have been distributed in the last four weeks to people who had lost or mislaid them.
  • A quick query brought profuse apologies - her order had been mislaid.
  • I mislaid my purse.
  • A purse that has gone missing in the centre of Sheffield for instance, is more likely to go down as a theft, while in a sleepy hamlet in Norfolk, the officer is likely to assume the property has been mislaid.
  • Apart from people wanting to renew licences that have expired, there have also been a lot of applications for duplicate licences where people have mislaid them.
  • I have mislaid the new magazine.
  • They were all out of a batch that had gotten 'mislaid' en route from the factory to Camp Pendleton'that's the Marine depot in southern California. Noble House
  • Was there information he ought to know, mislaid in his subconscious? THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • Maybe, as a result of this, sentences occasionally miss main verbs or particles get mislaid, but blogging is Hell, soldier.
  • Haringey has suspended an official over the mislaid dossier and is carrying out a probe. The Sun
  • The only suggestion the evidence custody team can come up with is that somehow it got "mislaid" during the move to the new storage facility. The Distant Echo
  • She recounts the tale of how she 'mislaid' something white and lacy ahem in a car park...enough - ed Desperately Seeking Susan's Keys
  • Anyway it transpired that she had mislaid her purse.
  • What followed appears to be a series of lost or mislaid documents, delays, and contradictory information. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nor was the phrase inapplicable; for, in a letter, to which I have mislaid the reference, the Earl of Northumberland writes to the King and Marmion
  • the mislaid hat turned up eventually
  • There are still problems: most of the translated poems, for example, are taken out of context, and the architectonics of the original publications therefore mislaid.
  • I can only conclude that it must have been mislaid or misfiled.
  • Why, yesterday I mislaid a sock and I simply don't care.
  • During the wanton demolition of the Beauchamp chantry, where, "in marble tumbes," with his father and mother on either hand, the remains of Bishop Beauchamp had been unmolested for over three hundred years, his own tomb was "mislaid" and never recovered. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum
  • Now, like Cinderella, all they need is a ticket to have a ball, whereupon Linda chances across a mislaid handbag with four tickets inside.
  • `I've been trying to call you for months and months, but I mislaid your number and Information was terribly uncooperative. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
  • A gentleman complained that one morning his bank did not open on time, because the door key was mislaid by an irresponsible bank clerk.
  • It's not the first time I have lost and/or mislaid things.
  • As a result of globalisation, many states appear to have mislaid their maps, compasses and direction-finding instruments, even the will to set a course.
  • In a situation described as udder chaos, officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Defra admitted in Parliamentary questions that 20,979 of the animals had been mislaid. Archive 2008-10-01
  • Could I borrow a pen? I seem to have mislaid mine.
  • Golf had hardly come in, and when one wasn't playing cricket, and the spilliken set had been mislaid, and tiddley-winks was voted too rough, a couple of sets or so was rather fun. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914
  • Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it, but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself. Chance
  • They're now going back over the call-tape (anyone want to bet it's been ‘mislaid’?) to see what the tosspot actually said.
  • The "mislaid" rationale presumes the existence of a living owner, or the vigilance of the depositor's descendants; only occasionally can it be helpful for older artifacts, such as those in Idaho, as the likelihood of the original depositor's return diminishes with each passing year. The Slow Death of Treasure Trove
  • In a situation described as udder chaos, officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) admitted in Parliamentary questions that 20,979 of the animals had been mislaid. Nothing To Do With Arbroath
  • Thus Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself. Chance A Tale in Two Parts
  • Sydney and introduced a momentum that England had temporarily mislaid. Times, Sunday Times
  • A quick query brought profuse apologies - her order had been mislaid.
  • In the night, in those early months, as she tried to move towards him to embrace him fully, to offer herself to his dried-up spirit, she found that he was happier obsessively fondling certain parts of her body in the dark as though he were trying to find something he had mislaid. The Empty Family
  • If your son or daughter has mislaid an item of clothing, sportswear, school uniform, footwear, etc., please ask at Graun Park during opening hours.
  • Either that or she's mislaid another valuable item down a crack in the floorboards. The Sun
  • Like Hemingway, who also once mislaid a novel, Kay felt bereft and quickly drove back to where he'd left it but it was gone.
  • However, the school has now been told the papers were mislaid on their way to the exam board, prompting an outspoken attack from pupils.
  • After supplying medical records and repeatedly telephoning the department, we were told in September that they had mislaid his file.
  • `I've been trying to call you for months and months, but I mislaid your number and Information was terribly uncooperative. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
  • Oh dear, I've mislaid my glasses again.
  • Now one thing is not good: I have mislaid the make-up crayon I stole from Maxine that first day we met. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • Now Warne looks exasperated, McGrath is a drinks waiter with a dicky elbow and dodgy ankle and the Australian cheerleaders have mislaid their pom-poms.
  • Haringey has suspended an official over the mislaid dossier and is carrying out a probe. The Sun
  • If you have mislaid the ticket sent to you, don't hesitate to ask any club officer for a replacement.
  • Sydney and introduced a momentum that England had temporarily mislaid. Times, Sunday Times
  • Either that or she's mislaid another valuable item down a crack in the floorboards. The Sun
  • They were all out of a batch that had gotten 'mislaid' en route from the factory to Camp Pendleton — that's the Marine depot in southern California. Noble House

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