Sentence examples for is mislaid from inspiring English sources
He mails the film to the manufacturer but it is mislaid in the developing room and never found.
Some money is mislaid, a relationship begins, then flounders after mutual infidelity.
The second is mislaid property — something that the owner has hidden with the intention of recovering, but has then forgotten.
In "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life," Freud describes "the unconscious dexterity with which an object is mislaid on account of hidden but powerful motives," including "the low estimation in which the lost object is held, or a secret antipathy towards it or towards the person that it came from".
From the most serious loss (a person kidnapped, or a soldier unaccounted for or absent without leave) to an irritating minor loss (an object is mislaid), to go missing -- always in its past tense, went, or past participle, gone -- conveys a worried, nonspecific meaning that no other word or phrase quite does.
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.
And the coupons represent a document with value that can be mislaid.
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.
