lose one's way
Example Sentences
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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
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)
These verily are the refinements and ecstasies of method—amid which, or certainly under the influence of any exhilarated demonstration of which, one must keep one's head and not lose one's way.
From The Ambassadors by James, Henry
Nothing, indeed, is more common than to lose one's way in the steppes, nor is it at all necessary to that end that one should fall out of his sledge.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de
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
