How to use "lost" in a sentence

After Kristi and Megan left Aron, they got lost in the west canyon and arrived late at the meeting place

It made me feel lost and alone

I've just lost half of the rest of my life.

He often led rescue operations to find climbers lost in the mountains

I get lost up a side canyon and have to turn round

It's the lost city of Atlantis!"

Maybe Captain Nemo thought that soon all his men would die, and the Nautilus and his secret would be lost.

Ned Land lost his temper, and I thought Captain Nemo might listen to me and let us go.

I tried to walk to the Hodaddy Club from the train station, but I lost my way, so I took a taxi

I bet all my money on myself to win - and then I lost the fight.

Then you went up into space and I lost you for four years, and I think you changed

But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is LESS perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time

Suddenly Slinkton lost his calm and his courage

On Friday November 30th Druitt lost his job at a private school for some unknown reason

In 1795, he had lost his job as a tree-cutter

Now, at last, he was free, but he felt bitter and angry about his lost years

'I used to work in Paris, but my husband died and I lost my job.' She could not tell Mme Thenardier the truth, which was that she had been made pregnant by a young man who had then abandoned her

An unmarried woman with a child was a terrible thing in those days, and Fantine lost her job

'I lost my job because of you

'I honestly didn't know that you had lost your job, but I'll try to help you now

'It gave me so much happiness just to look at her, and now, through my stupidity, I've lost even that.'

She looked cold and ill, and when she spoke, Marius saw that she had lost several of her teeth

Only a thin wall separated him from the family of lost souls in the room next door

She did not reply but stood thoughtfully looking at him, seeming to have lost all her earlier confidence

Thenardier seemed lost in his own dark thoughts

Marius caught her and held her tightly in his arms without realizing what he was doing, lost in a mist of love

I wear a cheap hat, my jacket has lost half its buttons and there are holes in my boots.' He turned away from her and stood with his face pressed to the trunk of a tree, almost ready to faint

It hurts to touch, and I shout in the fog, the sound lost in the dark of the night

And now Brandon is alone, and he feels tired and lost, and he knows that the man in the dark winter coat and black hat is near

In a simulator, it was hard to forget that there were four walls just five or six steps away - but in a pod, you lost your awareness of the world around you

she thinks maybe it came from her long-lost brother

And then, just like the first time, the woman stepped quickly onto the walkway and was soon lost among the crowds.

She had lost sight of the woman - where had she gone? She tried to message Cham, but nothing happened

His face was pale and his dark eyes had a sad, lost look

He was lost in the past

Somehow I lost my way

'I lost my way,' I said, 'I was trying to find my room.'

His eyes had a dark, lost look

I could not forget the lost look in Maxim's eyes

'We've lost our chance of happiness

Rebecca had not won, she had lost.

You have lost that young, sweet look

This boy in the station wagon was not the first that she had imagined was Danny; in recent weeks, she had seen her lost son in other cars, in schoolyards past which she had been driving, on public streets, in a movie theater.

The boy in the Chevy had lost interest in her

Danny's cries and her response became increasingly shrill and desperate, for they knew that they must reach each other before nightfall or be lost forever; in the oncoming night, something waited for Danny, something fearsome that would seize him if he was alone after dark

She had lost her child and her husband in the same year, the man first, and then the boy, the son to the grave and the husband to the winds of change

Shortly before noon, two high rollers from Dallas sat down at a blackjack table and, in three hours, lost a quarter of a million bucks; they were laughing and joking when they left the table to try another game

But she had lost her nerve

Now that she had spent more than a year grieving for her broken marriage and for her lost son, now that Magyck! was almost behind her, she would have time to be a woman again

No reason to be in a hurry to make up for lost pleasures

After their fourth encounter, she lost track of how long they were together

She had lost the momentum occasioned by her anger, and now she was afraid of losing the sense of purpose that had driven her to confront him

They've been through a time warp and lost a couple of days

"You've lost me."

"I didn't realize you'd lost your wife," Tina said

She felt up to the challenge now, and she intended to finish the task before she lost her nerve again.

We've lost some pressure in our lines, and we're trying to find the cause of it

Kevin's parents went away from the city immediately after the funeral, intending to spend a month at their summerhouse in the country, where they could be free from the press of business and social duties, the better to mourn their lost child

"They've lost some pressure in the gas lines

Willis Bruckster stared at them, then crumpled his game card with obvious disappointment and disgust, as if he had lost a few hard-earned dollars.

As he gazed at the model, he wasn't transported back in time or lost in fantasies of high-seas adventure; rather, he was mulling over the recent developments in the Evans case

But if I get lost, you'll be the navigator."

The moment that the news media became aware of the Network's existence, all was lost.

Elliot said, "I assure you, Billy, we haven't lost our marbles

The Eyes of Darkness is a modest little thriller about a woman, Tina Evans, who lost her child, Danny, when he was in an accident on a trip with his scouting troop

Although The Eyes of Darkness does not have the intensity, the humor, the depth of characterization, the complexity of theme, or the pace of later novels, readers have responded positively to it over the years, most likely because the device of a lost child - and the dedicated mother who will do anything to find out what happened to her little boy - strikes a primal chord in all of us.

If you haven't yet read The Eyes of Darkness, I am giving away nothing important in the story when I tell you that eventually, in a search for her lost son, Tina ventures into the High Sierras in winter, where she comes across a paved road, in the middle of the wilderness, that features heating coils under the pavement to prevent snow from sticking to it

But when the South lost the war, and there was equality for black people, Uncle Elias left America

Saying that she had lost her yellow hat had been an excuse to search my study

My body seemed to have lost its strength

'They've lost one - just one

I lost my way among the streets, and soon saw down a long road, in the half-light of the early dawn, the curve of Primrose Hill

It seems to me that they have lost a great advantage in the failure of their first surprise

'You see,' Holmes said to me, 'I needed a case, and now I have lost this one because we went for a walk in the park.'

When someone finally found it, Uncle Podger lost the hammer.

When we found the hammer, he lost the place on the wall to put the picture

They wanted to get out because they were lost

Harris got lost! The people were angry with him

But, he got lost, too! Finally, the old keeper came back from lunch

But they had lost it.

He knew that none of the village women spoke to me because 6 they thought I had lost my virtue

Now she looked like the Laura I first met at Limmeridge: her expression was lively once more, she smiled frequently, and she had lost that sad nervous look that made her so very like Anne Catherick

Shirin lost her job as the president of the city court, and she had to work as a secretary.

After the war ended and the men came home, more than 2 million women lost their jobs