If Wright's theory of the verb is correct, the only just form of the foregoing expression is, "all virtue is being lost.
He exhorted them to abandon their childish fear of being lostin these unknown, large waters, but he assured them that return he would not, till he had seen the Massawomeks and found the Patowomek.
II LOST IN THE WOODS It ought to be said, by way of explanation, that my being lost in the woods was not premeditated.
The island was desolated and destroyed for more than twenty leguas round about the city, which was in danger of being lost.
Lamps shed their homely light; roof and wall kept the fog-spook securely out: nothing as comfortable then as to listen to stories of being lost on the marsh, or to tell them.
Now, if we steer west we will see our barn, but steering east is being lost at sea, for in time you would be behind de sun.
Oh, I was vary dry you may depend; I was so scared at being lost at sea that way, my lips stuck together like the sole and upper-leather of a shoe.
No, hug the shore, man, hug it so close as posseeble, and nevare lose sight of land for fear of being lost at sea.
Nearly every fellow ever found after being lost is stark naked--begging your pardon, Miss," he added as his eye fell upon Vivienne.
The whole business of my being lost must be kept dark, and I must get back to my world as soon as I can.
My excuse must be that I am not accustomed to being lost, and the experience had--er--slightly unbalanced me.
You want your turn in being lost in the canyon, do you?
The thought of being lost in Thorn's Gulch, or in some one of the myriad branches of the majestic chasm that extended for hundreds of miles in the course of the mighty Colorado, was alarming.
For a few minutes after the departure of the guide the boys remained in the camp, obedient to the suggestion of Zeke, and perhaps all alike fearful of being lost if they ventured far from the locality.
There is no feeling quite like that of being lost--helplessness, terror, and despair!
The very last thing that would have occurred to me on this particular day was that there was any chance of being lost or any need to take note of where we went.
Among our party there was one who was very nervous: he had been lost once for six or eight hours, and being haunted by the dread of being lost again, his nerve was all gone and he would not go fifty yards without a companion.
But no one who has not seen it can realise how the thing may happen; no one would believe the effect that the terror of being lost, and the demoralisation which it causes, can have on a sane man's senses.
I was journeying quite by myself, confiding perhaps too much in the knowledge I had gained of the jungle, and the possibility of being lost in the forest never entered my head.
With them, in friendly intimacy, are monkeys, squirrels and tame wild-boars, while fowls cackle in the dossers where they have been put for fear of being lost in the jungle.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being lost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
