lost lamb
Example Sentences
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Kate Riley follows Ruth from childhood to middle age, writing with kindness, hilarity and aphoristic brilliance about this eccentric woman, a lost lamb who never actually leaves the safety of the flock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Mrs. Underdown called me a poor lost lamb.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The picture was a most admirable representation of the Good Shepherd bearing a lost lamb home on His shoulders.
From Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker) Baker
He speaks—the mountains kneel, the valleys rise; Rolls to the north the land-dividing wave; Equality—nay, justice, holds the helm, Each hath his own, the lost lamb finds the fold.
From Elias An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. Whitney
The favorite went to meet him, trembling like a lost lamb coming face to face with a wolf.
From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Mór Jókai
