The phrase "alternately lost" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where something is lost in a back-and-forth manner or in different instances.
Example: "As I navigated through the maze, I felt alternately lost and found, unsure of which path to take next."
Alternatives: "periodically lost" or "intermittently lost".
Paintings and posters, photographs and films, rare books and decorative art objects alternately evoke the lost world of Russia's old regime and hint at the utopian future imagined by the nation's revolutionaries.
On screen, where visuals reign and the simple pleasures of language are less paramount, the expanded "Jewtopia" is just a flat premise, uncomfortable not only because the clichés are groaners, but also because you feel sorry for everyone who's working so hard to prop up the farce — especially Mr. Fogel, the director, whose work seems alternately desperate and lost.
Boro were among the pre-season favourites for promotion, but have won and lost alternately in their opening four matches.
Consider too that these traits can apparently be shifted on and off i.e., alternately expressed or lost in phenotype via regulatory gene activity.
The woman – Lucy – alternately wails for her lost daughter, who either fell or was pushed from a window, and talks on the phone, discussing what sounds like a plan for revenge.
Sadly, Mao himself never emerges as a clear historic personality, remaining lost in the alternately damning and idealizing hyperbole.
Now he seems lost in an offense that alternately revolves around himself, Zach Randolph, Stephon Marbury and Jamal Crawford.
His "Glow In the Dark" tour was extravagant and captivating (if sometimes misguided), Mr. West pitching himself alternately as a fearless explorer and a lost space boy.
WASHINGTON — Moments before the Senate deal was finalized on Wednesday, some House conservatives were alternately defiant and defeated, acknowledging they may have lost the current battle but vowing to fight on.
