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 mother had dined in the ladies' cabin, and retired to her berth to lie down, and this lost lamb was searching for her.
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
The great grey eyes swam in sudden tears that were not to be repressed, as the Mother-Superior remembered the finding of that lost lamb on the veld seven years before.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
"I might have known it; poor, lost lamb, I might have known it."
From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
