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
"She has aye been good to me; but not like a mother," said Thora, as plaintively as a lost lamb.
From The Pilots of Pomona by Leighton, Robert
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 Whitney, Orson F.
Mary turned her large sorrowful eyes upon it, and whispered,— 'The lost lamb is found.
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
