How to Use lost in a Sentence

lost

adjective

• Many have tried to find the ruins of the lost city.
• We took a wrong turn and got lost.
• He was looking for his lost keys.
• Hold my hand. I don't want you to get lost.
• He has been trying to recapture his lost youth.
• The original music is lost to us forever.
• The weight of the unsaid and the unspeakable, the lost and the left out, hangs over the poem’s head.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• The pied piper of lost souls, the melancholy maestro.. tonite was your night.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2023
• The lost boy, whose name was Bill, was sixteen years old.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2023
• There's danger along the way, as she'll be forced to battle her way to the lost rebel.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
• And the one that didn't result in a punt ended in a lost fumble.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2023
• This is the second time in the past 13 months that a lost pig was found roaming the streets of Pleasanton.
  — Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2023
• This Clothing Stamp will help sort out the lost and found bins and save a ton of time with a Sharpie.
  — Matthew Parker, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2023
• Otherwise, Hertz charges a flat fee of $250 for a lost key.
  — Christopher Elliott, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
• There were more than a dozen messages, each a time capsule from a lost life.
  — Safak Timur Emin Ozmen, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The Celtics challenged the call and lost, taking away their last timeout, and Mitchell’s two free throws tied the score at 109.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• Full-length skate videos are a lost art form because of costs and logistics, so now the part is the whole.
  — Bret Anthony Johnston, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• With two games left in a lost campaign, why not let Boban pull the trigger from beyond the arc?
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 6 Apr. 2023
• So add a little salty to all of your Easter sweets to keep with the lost tradition.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
• No, this was the lost grandfather on your father’s side.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• People are drawn to him – Niko, a lost child in the park, the bookseller, a transient homeless man.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Feb. 2024
• It’s not a lost cause for this team to figure it out on that end of the floor, and maybe the group will get it together in the coming weeks.
  — Michael Haag, Dallas News, 18 Jan. 2023
• How about those charming long lines and that mountain of lost luggage?
  — Forbeslife forbes Staff, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Sobel sees the lost grant as part of long pattern of resistance.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
• But in 2012 Klaus Lebrecht located the lost shed, and now the two are reunited.
  — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 27 Mar. 2024
• Amid all that Bat-business, the show’s own identity tends to get a little lost.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
• The couple filed a claim to the town asking for $5,000 to help pay for medical bills and recoup from lost salary months out of work.
  — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 6 Mar. 2024
• Conklin scoured the circus for water, but it had been used up — the elephants had been fed, the goat had been bathed, and all hope seemed lost.
  — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 21 June 2023
• McDaniel brought a lost offense back to life last season.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2023
• His own personal chimera is a return to a lost Eden littered with eaten apples.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024