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
Grace continued, looking at Geordie; "he actually left all the other sheep —the ninety-nine, you know—in the wilderness, and went away to seek for this poor little silly lost lamb."
From Geordie's Tryst A Tale of Scottish Life by Rae, Mrs. Milne
“That?” she replied, “Oh, that’s a little lost lamb turned loose in a den of you human hyenas.”
From Little Lost Sister by Brooks, Virginia
The picture was a most admirable representation of the Good Shepherd bearing a lost lamb home on His shoulders.
From Little Tora, The Swedish Schoolmistress and Other Stories by Baker, Sarah S. (Sarah Schoonmaker)
