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
Left alone the young queen strayed through the magnificent palace like a lost lamb.
From Czechoslovak Fairy Tales by Fillmore, Parker
They wondered, I couldn't doubt, what I was doing among them, and what lost lamb, almost audibly bleating, I had been charged to figure.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry
Mistress Gifford had gone out early to look after the shepherd, who was seeking a lost lamb, and the black man had come out of a hollow.
From Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney by Marshall, Emma
