Sentence examples for are mislaid from inspiring English sources

In a play in which pictures go missing and mundane items are mislaid, the ghostly atmosphere of the piece has been enhanced by the furniture starting to play up.

This is not the Lost Generation...far from lost, they are probably the most aware generation since Nat Turners.' They are not so much lost as they are mislaid, discarded by this increasingly racist system that undermines their inherent worth".

His confession had probably been mislaid in the police records office.

The postal site in which the Oscar ballots had been mislaid was also in Bell.

He mails the film to the manufacturer but it is mislaid in the developing room and never found.

And the coupons represent a document with value that can be mislaid.

Some money is mislaid, a relationship begins, then flounders after mutual infidelity.

He looks like a slightly apprehensive accountant, worried that he's mislaid some receipts.

It sounds, successfully, as though it has been mislaid from a musical.

There isn't actually a death involving a purloined letter – although you sometimes worry that the script has been mislaid.

After taking strong medication for three months, he lost the lot when his luggage was mislaid at Heathrow.