Sentence examples for for being lost from inspiring English sources

John McEnroe, not known for being lost for words, uttered just one: "Speechless".

But the quality that is lost -- the Frenchness of the story, say -- is more valuable for being lost.

Sure, we'd developed a patience, perhaps even a taste for being lost, but we were plain exhausted: not in our bodies, which had forgotten nothing of what they'd known of heat, or of what to do with it - wasn't it this that had rescued us, mostly, from many worse persuasions, as we passed the time?

At one point, with a tragic depth one would find exceptional in any American film, a character prays to God that he and his buddy be shown the way or, if they cannot be given a direction, that God "forgive us for being lost".

Of course, OnStar is available as well, so one never has any excuse for being lost while driving a CTS.

It's the very same body and mind, unobserved or observed, that is the ground for being lost or being free.

You realise that what these people were searching for was lost love.

He also said after last year's GOP Latino debacle that "I don't think everything I worked for is lost".

If things that you have been looking for are lost, there is a chance of finding them.

More than his music, though, what Erickson became famous for was losing his mind.

So many opportunities we might take for granted are lost for Syria's children.