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
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
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 Jókai, Mór
“That?” she replied, “Oh, that’s a little lost lamb turned loose in a den of you human hyenas.”
From Little Lost Sister by Brooks, Virginia
