lose one's way

Example Sentences

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The rich luxuriance of movements and of individual characters chokes our path; it is a labyrinth in which one may well lose one's way and fail to see the wood for the trees.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry

Nothing, indeed, is more common than to lose one's way in the steppes, nor is it at all necessary to that end that one should fall out of his sledge.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de

"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

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