lose one's way
Example Sentences
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These verily are the refinements and ecstasies of method—amid which, or certainly under the influence of any exhilarated demonstration of which, one must keep one's head and not lose one's way.
From The Ambassadors by James, Henry
Borrow’s is a wonderful book for one to lose one’s way in, among the dense undergrowth, but it is a still grander book for the reader to lose himself in.
From Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 by Seccombe, Thomas
Mme. d'Abrantès, with her usual veracity, describes the luxurious furniture and huge lamps in the "labyrinths of Tournebut, of which one must, as it were, have a plan, so as not to lose one's way."
From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]
It was a strange place in which it was easy to lose one's way.
From Stubble by Looms, George
Early in our work upon the plains we learned how easy it is to lose one's way.
From Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' by Andrews, Roy Chapman
