lose one's way

Example Sentences

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But it is easy to lose one's way upon a mountain-peak, and the hills presented no clear definition to me.

From Jacqueline of Golden River by Coleman, Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen)

Mme. d'Abrantès, with her usual veracity, describes the luxurious furniture and huge lamps in the "labyrinths of Tournebut, of which one must, as it were, have a plan, so as not to lose one's way."

From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]

"Who can say that?" rejoined I; "it's no difficult matter to lose one's way in a dense forest, where the tracks are unknown."

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

It is so easy to lose one’s way - when one is young.’

From In Kedar's Tents by Merriman, Henry Seton

But the one disadvantage of a forest is that one may lose one's way in it.

From The Crimes of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)