lose one's way
Example Sentences
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To wander in the dark; to lose one's way.
From Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by Gibbs, George
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
"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
But the one disadvantage of a forest is that one may lose one's way in it.
From The Crimes of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
It was a strange place in which it was easy to lose one's way.
From Stubble by Looms, George
