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
"She has aye been good to me; but not like a mother," said Thora, as plaintively as a lost lamb.
From The Pilots of Pomona by Leighton, Robert
The favorite went to meet him, trembling like a lost lamb coming face to face with a wolf.
From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Jókai, Mór
Like a lost lamb she roams on high Through the cold and soundless sky, And stares down into her deep Reflection in the pool of sleep.
From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John
