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
Of course it had to be a lost lamb or a calf in Texas; the wonder was there hadn't been more of them.
From Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party by Goss, John
She had helped her faithfully and tenderly to nurse Lynette through the long illness that had followed the finding of that lost lamb upon the veld.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
The great grey eyes swam in sudden tears that were not to be repressed, as the Mother-Superior remembered the finding of that lost lamb on the veld seven years before.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
