lose one's way
Example Sentences
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To wander in the dark; to lose one's way.
From Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by Gibbs, George
Sometimes one may lose one's way, and one may even falter if the path is rugged.
From A People's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
It was a strange place in which it was easy to lose one's way.
From Stubble by Looms, George
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)
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
