lose one's way
Example Sentences
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"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
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
It is so easy to lose one’s way - when one is young.’
From In Kedar's Tents by Merriman, Henry Seton
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
To wander in the dark; to lose one's way.
From Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by Gibbs, George
