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
The Widow found her "lost lamb" hiding behind a rain-barrel when she opened up the house next morning, and there was a mighty touching and affecting scene.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
"I might have known it; poor, lost lamb, I might have known it."
From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
"Why, here is the lost lamb," said the doctor.
From A Flight with the Swallows Little Dorothy's Dream by Marshall, Emma
