The phrase "a sort of lost" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a feeling of being somewhat lost or confused, but it requires rephrasing for clarity.
Example: "After moving to a new city, I felt a sort of lost in my surroundings."
Alternatives: "kind of lost" or "somewhat lost."
Apes Hill is a sort of lost world, preserved from the helter-skelter of development below.
Jean-Claude Ribaut, a food critic for Le Monde, called terroir "a sort of lost paradise".
But then the landscape fell away again to a vast high plain, a sort of lost world where cattle grazed in lush meadows watered by fast-flowing streams and surrounded on all sides by snow-capped mountains, even in the heat of mid-summer.
In Smash Cut, he seeks to unearth the ruins what he describes as a sort of lost Atlantis.
The authors' sense that children are slipping from adult grasp, becoming a sort of lost generation, will resonate with parents, especially those battling with excessive screen time or teenage estrangements.
The strange character of Orpen Wren, a sort of lost historian who sees everything and knows nothing, who goes out to tell Ellie's husband something catastrophic at the end, does not bring catastrophe as such.
According to organic chemist John W. Huffman, who developed the K2 compound during the mid 1990's, the chemicals are a-sort of lose cannon.
When people are playing defense and they're primarily focused on their own jobs, it ultimately ends up being a sort of losing strategy.
Now there were many types of fallout, but to those of us who made our living as political satirists, questioning our government was still an unwelcome programming pitch, so we were a breed sort of lost in the wilderness.
However, if you've lost your item somewhere farther away, Tile leverages its community of users as a sort of crowdsourced lost item finder.
He's a sort of a lost toy, a floppy character who has made his way through the world somehow".
