lost sheep
Example Sentences
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"They brand me as a lost sheep, and young people are told that I'll mislead them. I am lonely most of the time."
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2025
To that end, the lost sheep has come home a leviathan, a little piano turned ferocious beast insisting that you listen, or else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2021
But because the norm has been to raise the dogs with minimal human interaction, even ranchers who do locate lost sheep dogs have difficulty corralling them because the canines don’t trust people.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2019
For his part, Dick Hardy lost sheep when a bear broke into his barn.
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2014
I studied the clouds’ dark shapes—flocks of lost sheep straying across a desolate wasteland, blown to rags and tatters by the wind.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
