lost lamb
Example Sentences
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Kate Riley follows Ruth from childhood to middle age, writing with kindness, hilarity and aphoristic brilliance about this eccentric woman, a lost lamb who never actually leaves the safety of the flock.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
Mrs. Underdown called me a poor lost lamb.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
"My baby, my son, my own lost lamb, for whom I have searched and prayed—God knows how faithfully, how sorrowfully—all these long, dreadful years!"
From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans
She is beautiful of body and strangely warm and winning to the touch, but as cold of heart as the drifting snow that suffocates a poor lost lamb.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
"I hope you won't play the lost lamb to her snowdrift!" he sneered, in a way that I resented.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
