Sentence examples for it seemed lost from inspiring English sources

It seemed lost in the depths of her shabby old shopping-bag.

And trains could bring the reinforcements that could turn a battle when it seemed lost.

Mrs. Aubrac died in 2007 at 94. President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that the Aubracs and their colleagues had "operated behind the scenes and saved the honor of France, at a moment when it seemed lost".

The image was confrontational — with the addition of a swoosh, it could have been an ad for Nike — but it seemed lost amid the visual distractions of lower Manhattan.

Prof. Oliver Robert Gurney, an Oxford classicist and a leading scholar of the Hittites, whose ancient civilization he began to study when most of it seemed lost to history, died in Oxford on Jan . 11

The image was confrontational with the addition of a swoosh, it could have been an ad for Nike but it seemed lost amid the visual distractions of lower Manhattan.

Logistical problems nixed a planned trip, and, it seemed, "Losing You," until Solange landed up (feeling "really bummed") for an unrelated photo shoot in Cape Town.

Everyone, it seems, lost a relative.

The Crumbs, it seems, lost a third son, Patrick, in a horrible boating accident; this buried child looms large in the family's sense of itself.

Since then it has been seen in cities on three continents -- without, it seems, losing a bit of its original sparkle, and has been widely reproduced in text books.

Also, while cone monochromacy would not seem to hurt animals that are largely nocturnal, it seems losing the S-cone would be disadvantageous for whales and seals, whose habitat includes the bright surface of the ocean.