Lost Sentence Examples

Had he lost his mind?

Mom always said lost time couldn't be replaced.

Russie is a lost cause.

The gaze lost its humor and he grimaced.

The boys lost no time in trying it.

The ship sailed away and was soon lost to sight.

I am lost! she said to herself.

We seem to have lost our stomach for these kinds of losses.

You've lost almost all of your self-esteem.

Have you lost anyone, my dear fellow?

He had lost more than he could pay.

It's well that the charitable Prussian ladies send us two pounds of coffee and some lint each month or we should be lost! he laughed.

Without you, or when something comes between us like this, I seem lost and can't do anything.

He picked at a thread on the couch, his mind obviously lost in deep thought.

On the other hand, if he lost them, she would be sharing the loss of lifestyle.

Now he's at least functional but the sad part is he lost nearly all of his memory.

No wonder man has lost his elasticity.

If I endeavored to overtake him in a boat, in order to see how he would manoeuvre, he would dive and be completely lost, so that I did not discover him again, sometimes, till the latter part of the day.

In their service he risked his skin and his life twenty times a year, and in their service had lost more horses than the money he had from them would buy.

I lost the baby.

Is Franklin the only man who is lost, that his wife should be so earnest to find him?

The four men followed them for some distance, and then lost them on the hillside.

At that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past.

Prince Andrew was as glad to find the boy like that, as if he had already lost him.

The Pavlograd regiment had had only two men wounded in action, but had lost nearly half its men from hunger and sickness.

Anatole moved a chair for Natasha and was about to sit down beside her, but the count, who never lost sight of her, took the seat himself.

At the review next day the Emperor asked Prince Andrew where he would like to serve, and Prince Andrew lost his standing in court circles forever by not asking to remain attached to the sovereign's person, but for permission to serve in the army.

From habit she scrutinized the ladies' dresses, condemned the bearing of a lady standing close by who was not crossing herself properly but in a cramped manner, and again she thought with vexation that she was herself being judged and was judging others, and suddenly, at the sound of the service, she felt horrified at her own vileness, horrified that the former purity of her soul was again lost to her.

The flames now died down and were lost in the black smoke, now suddenly flared up again brightly, lighting up with strange distinctness the faces of the people crowding at the crossroads.

I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk.

Toward two o'clock the regiment, having already lost more than two hundred men, was moved forward into a trampled oatfield in the gap between Semenovsk and the Knoll Battery, where thousands of men perished that day and on which an intense, concentrated fire from several hundred enemy guns was directed between one and two o'clock.

Without moving from that spot or firing a single shot the regiment here lost another third of its men.

As soon as the men of the various regiments began to disperse among the wealthy and deserted houses, the army was lost forever and there came into being something nondescript, neither citizens nor soldiers but what are known as marauders.

Prince Andrew collected all his strength in an effort to recover his senses, he moved a little, and suddenly there was a ringing in his ears, a dimness in his eyes, and like a man plunged into water he lost consciousness.

He lost the power of thinking or understanding.

The French generals lost touch with the Russian army of sixty thousand men, and according to Thiers it was only eventually found, like a lost pin, by the skill--and apparently the genius--of Murat.

Infantry regiments, we are told, advanced to the attack with music and with drums beating, and killed and lost thousands of men.

Tikhon scratched his back with one hand and his head with the other, then suddenly his whole face expanded into a beaming, foolish grin, disclosing a gap where he had lost a tooth (that was why he was called Shcherbaty--the gap-toothed).

Are you lost or have the wolves eaten you?

Señor Medena leaned back in his chair, his attention lost in thought.

A body could get lost out here and never be found.

They exchanged knowing glances, and treated her like a lost dog.

In answer to her response, his kiss lost its hesitancy and became ardent.

By the time we were finished it was dark and the sand was blowing so bad we might have got lost, so we stayed in the cave until it let up.

I'm so sorry, but with my gift, I felt you had some sort of pain, maybe you lost someone once, long ago?

When he returned the Princess looked down the narrow neck of the big ornament and discovered her lost piglet, just as Eureka had said she would.

At intervals the trees lost their icy covering, and the bulrushes and underbrush were bare; but the lake lay frozen and hard beneath the sun.

I never lost a jot of my delight in this great park.

While my days at Radcliffe were still in the future, they were encircled with a halo of romance, which they have lost; but in the transition from romantic to actual I have learned many things I should never have known had I not tried the experiment.

I have lately read "Wilhelm Tell" by Schiller, and "The Lost Vestal."...

I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities.

In the years when she was growing out of childhood, her style lost its early simplicity and became stiff and, as she says, "periwigged."

On the 1st of April it rained and melted the ice, and in the early part of the day, which was very foggy, I heard a stray goose groping about over the pond and cackling as if lost, or like the spirit of the fog.

I did not need to go outdoors to take the air, for the atmosphere within had lost none of its freshness.

An old-fashioned man would have lost his senses or died of ennui before this.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

Is it some ill-fed village hound yielding to the instinct of the chase? or the lost pig which is said to be in these woods, whose tracks I saw after the rain?

It is said that when hatched by a hen they will directly disperse on some alarm, and so are lost, for they never hear the mother's call which gathers them again.

Ere long the hounds arrived, but here they lost the scent.

Sometimes in the twilight I alternately lost and recovered sight of one sitting motionless under my window.

As I was desirous to recover the long lost bottom of Walden Pond, I surveyed it carefully, before the ice broke up, early in '46, with compass and chain and sounding line.

However much he drank, he never lost his clearheadedness.

She had the air of one who has suddenly lost faith in the whole human race.

The sick man was so surrounded by doctors, princesses, and servants that Pierre could no longer see the reddish-yellow face with its gray mane-- which, though he saw other faces as well, he had not lost sight of for a single moment during the whole service.

Though the latter held on tenaciously, her voice lost none of its honeyed firmness and softness.

Here, Pierre, tell them your opinion, said she, turning to the young man who, having come quite close, was gazing with astonishment at the angry face of the princess which had lost all dignity, and at the twitching cheeks of Prince Vasili.

No, lad, either you fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine.

She was speaking as usual in French, and as if after long self-restraint she wished to make up for lost time.

When he saw Mack and heard the details of his disaster he understood that half the campaign was lost, understood all the difficulties of the Russian army's position, and vividly imagined what awaited it and the part he would have to play.

I know by now, if he wins he comes back early to brag about it, but if he stays out till morning it means he's lost and will come back in a rage.

I lost yesterday like a damned fool! cried Denisov, not pronouncing his r's.

They won't let us pass, we are left behind and have lost our people...

I've lost my company, your honor.

When the Emperor's health was drunk, Pierre, lost in thought, did not rise or lift his glass.

If you are going to fight a duel, and you make a will and write affectionate letters to your parents, and if you think you may be killed, you are a fool and are lost for certain.

Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, staked again, and again lost.

I'm lost! thought he.

Those who retreat after a battle have lost it is what we say; and according to that it is we who lost the battle of Pultusk.

If Barclay is now to be superseded by Bennigsen all will be lost, for Bennigsen showed his incapacity already in 1807.

But the enemy has lost masses...

Consider that on our retreat we have lost by fatigue and left in the hospital more than fifteen thousand men, and had we attacked this would not have happened.

A good chessplayer having lost a game is sincerely convinced that his loss resulted from a mistake he made and looks for that mistake in the opening, but forgets that at each stage of the game there were similar mistakes and that none of his moves were perfect.

Natasha with animated and excited face was telling him how she had gone to look for mushrooms the previous summer and had lost her way in the big forest.

Your excellency! he kept repeating pertinaciously while he shook Pierre by the shoulder without looking at him, having apparently lost hope of getting him to wake up.

He knew that it was a lost battle and that the least accident might now--with the fight balanced on such a strained center--destroy him and his army.

I came to the battle and have lost them.

Sonya, owing to the count's contradictory orders, lost her head and did not know what to do.

After meeting Princess Mary, though the course of his life went on externally as before, all his former amusements lost their charm for him and he often thought about her.

If Murat had not lost sight of the Russians?

Having crossed over, by a forced march, to the Tula road beyond the Pakhra, the Russian commanders intended to remain at Podolsk and had no thought of the Tarutino position; but innumerable circumstances and the reappearance of French troops who had for a time lost touch with the Russians, and projects of giving battle, and above all the abundance of provisions in Kaluga province, obliged our army to turn still more to the south and to cross from the Tula to the Kaluga road and go to Tarutino, which was between the roads along which those supplies lay.

The genuine as well as the false paper money which flooded Moscow lost its value.

Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold.

This was because all who began to grow depressed or who lost strength were sifted out of the army day by day.

Pierre exchanged glances with Countess Mary and Nicholas (Natasha he never lost sight of) and smiled happily.

We began disputing--Pierre and I--and I lost my temper.

Looking into that semi-sweet chocolate gaze, it was easy to understand why Dulce lost her composure.

Breakfast was a quiet meal, with Dulce absent and Señor Medena lost in thought.

The nausea persisted for a while, but was eventually lost in sleep.

The antidepressants didn't help that much, but maybe they were responsible for the fact that she had not lost control yet.

His eyes clouded with belated concern and his voice lost its edge.

His expression sobered and the blue eyes lost a little of their warmth.

What was it he said that day in the mountains... a body could be lost in those hills forever?

Apparently Pete wasn't concerned about Bordeaux getting lost.

I'm still not sure why they did - maybe because they had recently lost a lot of their own people.

Lives have been lost because we've either not been believed or someone was too late following up.

He'd lost another five pounds this month.

He was lost when I found him.

How many are lost?

She simply felt sad, as if she had lost someone forever.

After Mom died, Dad was lost.

Katie said that Bill was a little lost at first, but eventually got the hang of taking care of the babies.

We've lost one child already and I don't think I could stand losing Jonathan as well.

It's better to have fought and lost, than never to have fought at all, he quipped.

It was a reminder of what they once shared and lost — a lesson that for some things, there is only one chance.

Her implication that a lost love was the cause of a lost life was painful.

You haven't lost that arrogance.

That made an extraordinary long hole, as you may imagine, and reached far down into the earth; and, as I leaned over it to try to see to the bottom, I lost my balance and tumbled in.

For the want of a nail the shoe was lost; For the want of a shoe the horse was lost; For the want of a horse the battle was lost; For the failure of battle the kingdom was lost;-- And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

The lectures are spelled into my hand as rapidly as possible, and much of the individuality of the lecturer is lost to me in the effort to keep in the race.

But I seem to have lost the thread of my discourse.

Indeed, when some friend is trying to speak to Miss Keller, and the attempt is not proving successful, Miss Sullivan usually helps by spelling the lost words into Miss Keller's hand.

He had lost a dog, but found a man.

He has lost count of his children, but this Pierre was his favorite.

The squadron crossed the bridge and drew out of range of fire without having lost a single man.

We're lost! shouted the fugitives.

Yes or no, yes or no, yes or no! he still shouted when the princess, as if lost in a fog, had already staggered out of the study.

And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him today for the Emperor.

I must look for the commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with the rest.

Sarah's gentle voice was so much like the mother she lost.

You wouldn't get two miles into those woods before you were lost.

Hopefully he wouldn't wander off and get lost.

Howie can't drive two blocks out here without getting lost.

I slowly opened one eye with the firm intent to tell him to get lost.

Carless, moneyless, lost, she retreated to the sidewalk.

They both lost their footing at the top of one wave and tumbled into a valley, bouncing against the rubbery trough.

He shouted at her, fury on his face, but his words were lost to the storm.

Dusty's shout to Darian was lost in another burst of thunder.

I thought I lost you!

It was where she belonged, now that she'd helped those that needed it and lost her brother.

She'd lost her father and her brother.

If she kills you, nothing is lost.

His brother, Darian, however, tended to follow her around like a lost puppy.

I lost it when I was running from the man with the sword.

Never met anyone more lost than I am.

I'd say you're lost.

He'd been a good kid, lost, but honorable.

This was only a few days ago, when we all lost our magic.

She lost sight of him and hurried her step.

I regained a couple things I thought I'd lost.

Her turquoise eyes had been so lost and confused, he couldn't help but take pity on her.

Her gaze turned to the curtain, where not even a lost sunbeam could enter the room.

He began to cry, the soul-deep weeping of a man who'd lost all and spent his tormented life in a level of hell she'd never be able to imagine.

I think you're a lost angel.

I've lost my will to live today.

How many Guardians had he lost this year alone?

The words were familiar, the same words he'd spoken to Dusty thousands of years ago, when he'd discovered the youth who was not yet a man on a slave trader's block, bloodied and weeping for the family he'd just lost.

I'm a lost sheep, Sofia said.

The warmth of his smile was not lost on her, and she thought about what Linda had said about him.

He said no more, and she lost the nerve to pursue.

Lost in his thoughts, he didn't sense the danger until it spoke.

She took his arm, terrified they'd shoot the lost soul.

Will he be lost like this forever?

Despite the cool fear spiraling through her, she couldn't help but feel thrilled at the sight of him after she thought she'd lost him.

He's lost in his mind right now.

Her heart sang as she realized she hadn't lost him after all, her body echoing the desire on his face.

She took Darian's hand and led him down the hall like the lost child he was.

She'd challenged Gabriel's new mate to win him over in one week, or one of them lost their souls.

Lost in the heady sensations, Deidre wriggled and strained beneath him.

Their bodies were slick with sweat, and she lingered in the afterglow, lost in the heat and silk of his skin.

What if she lost the bet entirely?

She'd lost something when the Dark One turned her.

The unnaturally deep intimacy of the moment wasn't lost on her.

Someone lost a bet, he said.

You lost the deal.

She watched the battle with the Dark One – the one Darkyn lost – and saw him banished to the bowels of Hell.

She was in Hell, because there was nowhere else for her lost soul to go.

She knows she's lost and is desperate.

It's the only deal I ever lost that I didn't mind losing.

And getting lost down here would be really stupid.

My brother Ralph, bless his soul, lost a son to the system after a divorce.

I knew we wouldn't get lost, as long as we had the flashlight.

He dreamed of bones and babies and lost little girls.

Maybe some miner lost his finger and when they rushed him to a doctor the severed piece was lost.

After all, someone tried to get us lost in that mine and sabotaged our Jeep.

He lost sight of her while trying to find a parking spot.

One of Fred's nameless cohorts buttonholed Dean as he stepped from his vehicle, and by the time he extricated himself from her verbal grasp, the blonde was lost in the crowd at the park.

When I heard his voice saying that message, I nearly lost it.

Dean thought he'd lost her completely but she remained sitting, clapping with the other spectators—a bit too strenuously—as the puppy parade continued.

Both lost their wives to cancer and I think my father was a tad jealous but pleased our marriage made his friend and his daughter both so happy.

Jennifer Radisson, in spite of her height and eye catching blonde hair, was quickly lost in the happy crowd that clogged the sidewalks.

After a switchback, they crossed the bridge over a deep gorge, the location of Ouray's now-melted ice climbing park where David Dean had almost lost his life the prior winter.

She bit her lip and closed her eyes, hugging against him like a lost child.

Fred lost and muttered something about the unfairness of life as he left to do his duty.

Cynthia lost the staring contest and shuffled out of the room.

He called in to confirm but then lost the vehicle in traffic.

There's sure no love lost between you two.

You said so yourself—you've got no real evidence a crime was even committed—you lost the body!

The body was pretty far back and even then, we were lost before we crawled our way out.

You said you were lost in 1941, after the killing.

We were still lost.

The human was lost the moment Darkyn's name appeared across her back.

His soul was … lost soon after we threw your old body into the deepest chasm in the mortal world.

The thought of the Dark One reminded Gabriel that he lost three death-dealers to him in the course of a week, not to mention the deal Deidre made.

She appeared lost as she looked around her.

Deidre was watching him, her large blue eyes lost and frustrated.

Morale was low, and many had lost faith in Gabriel.

There had to be millions of lost souls to create that vibrant of a glow.

Lost souls, shut out of the underworld, was the greatest nightmare for Death.

In the meantime, the lost souls were stuck in a lake in the mortal world.

When the sun was up, she retreated from the French doors, troubled by the lost souls and what she did to make Gabriel's life worse, when she'd hoped to make it better.

She dwelled on Gabriel's touch, lost momentarily.

Deidre drank the rest of her tea but had lost her appetite.

She was lost for a moment in the sensations of his warm hand clasping hers.

The chain-of-events had unfolded the way she planned, except that Gabriel didn't fall into her lap, and she had lost all her power in the process.

If she lost her deal with the human and Darkyn came to collect?

She'd already lost two days.

Perhaps when she lost her soul at the end of the week or maybe, if she could help him recover his underworld, she'd tell Gabriel then.

But no longer, because she'd been trying to make sure she never lost him.

The only thing that was clear was that her soul was lost.

For a moment, she appeared to be lost to her emotions.

It sounded as if she'd already won, which meant his mate had lost.

By the tremor in her voice, she knew she'd lost this one as well as he did.

No, she was lost like the souls sitting in the mortal lakes.

Alex had lost his parents and had to quit college to raise his little sister.

Carmen had lost her parents before she met Alex.

And then there was the baby she and Alex had lost before it reached full term.

Maybe you would have lost her anyway, but at least we would have had some joy for a while.

He'd probably lost count of the foals he had delivered.

As if it were no particular problem, he said they had lost vital signs in flight a couple times.

Some people never knew what they had until they lost it.

His bare back had lost muscle tone while he was in the hospital, but he wasn't as thin as she had first thought.

For a long moment they held each other, lost in a sweet moment of oneness.

She had already lost him.

Wynn lost this round.

She was lost in a haze of heat and dark spices, of his hot kisses and solid strength, until his touch left her.

Lost to him already, Deidre sank into his world, not caring if it was the last night of her life, if she spent it with him.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity lost in his fury, a dagger sliced his forearm.

For now, our mission is to protect the lost souls from the demons.

To the lost souls, to the underworld, to a woman I want to hate, Gabe finished.

Somewhere along the past few months, he lost his way.

We lost so many Immortals, Gabe.

She lost, Fate said.

I thought I lost you.

I found the body and I thought it was you and I lost it.

He'd lost her once.

I lost patients before, people who shouldn't have died.

Everyone knew her somehow or about the Immortals, and she was lost.

The path towards the lost souls was anything but direct.

There were millions, maybe even billions of the lost souls!

Had past-Deidre lost them and condemned a billion souls to this existence?

Deidre gazed at him, her throat tightening at the reminder of the lost souls.

That was the bet she lost?

Exactly. I then called in the favor she owed me from the bet I actually lost.

The bitterness in his voice was not lost on Gabe.

So you're a lost soul, too, like the rest of the lake and me.

She wasn't going to make it long here if she lost control.

And they'd lost two of their brothers to the war.

She'd lost Hannah in the crowd.

She almost lost her stomach at the innocent question from the middle-aged matriarch of the bed and breakfast.

Her curse was lost as she was sucked into the shadow world.

We lost her the same night Andre died.

Rhyn probably saved humanity by doing so but was sent to Hell and nearly lost his mind.

I don't think he's the lost cause you're making him out to be, she said, disturbed.

The last time you looked at me like that, I lost a bet.

Gabriel was right --he had to figure it out before he lost his mate.

I couldn.t live if I lost you.

The maid lost her balance and toppled over.

All he needed was to figure out how to win a game of strategy he didn.t know how to play, before his time was up and he lost the only thing that mattered.

He.d lost his lover, Jade, that way, a sacrifice that still stung.

Was all truly lost?

She sat in the bathroom and ran the shower to cover the sound of her crying, completely lost as to what to do.

She heard a muffled response to her knock and walked in, not caring if he bid her enter or get lost.

Hannah looked around, lost.

Sanctuaries were managed by a convent of women who cared for the lost and injured.

The distinction was lost on Helga, whose look of horror made Katie pity the woman.

Rhyn was a lost cause from the beginning.

We lost quite a few of our friends, she said with a frown.

With a sinking heart, he realized he.d lost the Jade who.d been his friend and lover for a few hundred years.

Jade was lost in his thoughts for a few minutes, staring without seeing.

The madman had lost it.

He.d lost a lot of blood.

He.d lost the only thing that.d ever mattered, and the only person who ever truly loved him.

Evelyn's happy response was lost as she faded into sleep.

Evelyn followed leisurely, unconcerned with being lost on the massive ship.

Kiera squeezed her back, feeling very, very lost.

She'd lost complete control of her life overnight!

Her translator had been lost during restless sleep then crushed in her pacing, and the cell was littered with several dozen pieces of colorful clothing.

Kiera squeezed the gifts to her chest and walked back to the house, lost in thought.

He'd lost faith in A'Ran.

But to know even his most trusted advisor had lost faith in him enough to consort with the man who slaughtered his parents … "We'll talk later," he said, disturbed.

In the end, she made a drastic over-calculation and lost the ground battle.

At the age of fourteen sun-cycles, before he reached manhood, he had lost all but his sisters, been proclaimed dhjan of a planet he couldn't even visit, and made battle commander of a war he knew nothing of.

You must look beyond yourself to find a way to win her, A'Ran, or the planet is lost.

He'd begun to think he'd lost any chance he had at keeping her.

I'm going-- " "He's gone weak after all these years at battle and lost sight of winning back our planet!

It's my fault Ne'Rin lost his faith in you.

He'd dreaded his first steps on his planet, fearing it, too, would've lost faith in him.

Her latest protest was lost on the warriors, who dragged her aboard yet another ship.

She'd lost the ability to feel anger-- or feel at all-- and just wondered what her friend wanted.

Seems she and her sister have been chasing after this long lost relative for years.

It's like finding a long lost periodical son.

He lost his beautiful wife and died so young himself.

The note was undated and if there was a return address or an envelope, it was lost over the years.

Edward is saying the book is 'based on the life of Annie Quincy Martin' just so he can take some liberties with the inconsequential details that have been lost in time.

Effie explained effusively how she and her sister had spent the day resurrecting their long lost great-aunt, whom Dean wondered if they were about to dub Saint Annie.

Piano George said they lost two fine black horses that slipped on the ice of the Sneffles road and I could hear the men talking loudly about it.

There was a lingering smell of wood smoke in the night air and all earlier efforts at shoveling the walkway and stairs were lost in the smooth swirls of new fallen whiteness.

Dean stared at him, but was lost for a snippy response.

He could hear the strains of some lost cowboy lover coming from Fred's room, a sure sign the door to the old man's room was open.

A Country and Western singer was mourning a lost love on Fred's mini boom box.

To boot, now we've lost our only outside help.

He picked up his pad and wrote, "Lost them."

So you're guessing he was the one who took the Annie papers, the ones Donnie lost?

There were people milling about, most appearing as lost and confused as he felt.

The pair sat embraced, grieving their lost lives.

Jackson had lost count of the times she found 'The One', only to have her heart broken months or years later.

She seemed so lost his heart ached for her.

She followed him like a lost sheep.