lose one's way

Example Sentences

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Sometimes one may lose one's way, and one may even falter if the path is rugged.

From A People's Man by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

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.]

A fall that dazes one even for a few minutes is liable to befuddle one as to direction and cause one to lose one's way.

From A Mountain Boyhood by Comstock, Enos B. (Enos Benjamin)

"He's no doubt afraid that I shall lose myself," said she, "this is all so vast that it would be easy to lose one's way."

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

Once the lay-out of New York has been mastered—its avenues and numbered cross streets—it is the most difficult city in the world in which to lose one's way.

From Roving East and Roving West by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)