lose one's way
Example Sentences
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Once the lay-out of New York has been mastered—its avenues and numbered cross streets—it is the most difficult city in the world in which to lose one's way.
From Roving East and Roving West by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
Borrow’s is a wonderful book for one to lose one’s way in, among the dense undergrowth, but it is a still grander book for the reader to lose himself in.
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Seccombe, Thomas
These verily are the refinements and ecstasies of method—amid which, or certainly under the influence of any exhilarated demonstration of which, one must keep one's head and not lose one's way.
From The Ambassadors by James, Henry
"He's no doubt afraid that I shall lose myself," said she, "this is all so vast that it would be easy to lose one's way."
From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de
A fall that dazes one even for a few minutes is liable to befuddle one as to direction and cause one to lose one's way.
From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)
