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. All is not lost that is in danger.
2. He lost the thread of his argument.
3. He seemed to have lost the ability to think rationally.
4. The boss flipped out when he heard you lost the account.
5. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LOST
lost
 a.  not gained or won
 a.  no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  And neither expression was lost on the man who stood beside them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There is in liberty as in innocence and virtue a satisfaction one can only feel in their enjoyment and a pleasure which can cease only when lost.
2  He seemed to have lost the ability to think rationally.
3  According to the packet, these vitamin pills will restore lost vitality.
4  The boss flipped out when he heard you lost the account.
5  He hasn't written to me recently - perhaps he's lost my address.
6  The airline is beginning to claw back some of the business it lost after the bomb explosion.
7  Within you i lose myself,without you i find myself wanting to be lost again.
8  The gallant soldiers lost their lives so that peace might reign again.
9  Now that she's an air hostess, foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.
10  All is not lost that is in danger.
11  The future of society is in the hands of mothers; if the world was lost through woman she alone can save it.
12  He who has lost his good name is a dead man among the living.
13  Stay close together-I don't want anyone to get lost.
14  The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
15  He lost the thread of his argument.