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
A favorite child was lost from a goodly family, and ill feelings were agitated, and all hearts ran after him through thicket and field, over hill and valley, like shepherds after a lost lamb.
From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Lee, Day Kellogg
"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
Thus, on that morning of doom, I took him with me to look for the shepherd and the lost lamb.
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
