lose one's way

Example Sentences

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The rich luxuriance of movements and of individual characters chokes our path; it is a labyrinth in which one may well lose one's way and fail to see the wood for the trees.

From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry

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)

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.]

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

Then it is better to have a good compass—but better still not to lose one's way.

From On Commando by Van Warmelo, Dietlof