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Example sentences for "been lost"

  • He's been lost in about every city we've come to, and I think he ought to be locked in the cabin just as soon as we touch the pier.

  • If I had a dollar for every time he's been lost I'd have all the money I will ever need.

  • These brave and hardy warriors not only successfully defended the hilly districts that formed their retreat, but gradually pushed back the invaders, and regained control of a portion of the fields and cities that had been lost.

  • But I must not forget that this story is supposed to be principally about Peterkin and his adventures, so I'll go on again about the night after he'd been lost.

  • She hugged him as if he'd been lost for a year, and as if he was the prodigal son and the good brother mixed up together.

  • We were all very glad to see each other; but we felt very sorry when we thought that you and Oliver had been lost.

  • He is the only son of a widowed mother, and her heart would have been broken had he been lost.

  • I feared that our two friends had been lost.

  • What softened remembrances come o'er the heart, In gazing on those we've been lost to so long!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been lost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been away; been born; been brought; been captured; been carried; been committed; been formed; been going; been guilty; been having; been here; been killed; been otherwise; been removed; been thinkin; been thinking; been trying; been wondering; been written; bitter grief; brought into; little valley; long corridor; public prosecutor; supreme authority; three lights