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
He goes out to search for a lost lamb.
From I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Rosegger, Peter
"I hope you won't play the lost lamb to her snowdrift!" he sneered, in a way that I resented.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
"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
