lose track

idiom

: to stop being aware of how something is changing, what someone is doing, etc.

With so much going on, it's easy to lose track.

—usually + of

It's easy to lose track of what's going on.

I'm sorry I'm late. I lost track of the time.

We lost track of each other after high school.

Examples of lose track in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As Nicolas gets more turned around by the differences between his dreams and reality, so, too, does the film lose track of its purpose. —Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2024

Without an adequate scheduling team, an airline can lose track of where their crew is and where they could best be rerouted, which is exactly what happened to Norris. —Whizy Kim, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024

Never lose track of a brilliant idea again with OneNote, your digital notebook on steroids. —New Atlas, 11 July 2024

Case in point: the infinite scroll function on Instagram and TikTok, which was created in order to make users lose track of time down an inexhaustible rabbit hole of content. —Jeanne Ballion, Vogue, 22 July 2024