Sentence examples for lost items were from inspiring English sources

My lost items were not anywhere near that valuable, which was a good thing, because after almost two weeks, all I got was an automated e-mail notice Friday afternoon saying one of the items may have appeared.

In 2005, the auctioneer said, nearly $30,000 in clients' merchandise disappeared during transport; some of the lost items were reportedly recovered in a storage container belonging to a commissionaire.

Michael Bolles, a spokesman for Covenant, said lost items were often a result of passengers' distraction: last year 60,103 items were mistakenly left behind at San Francisco's security checkpoints (out of 40 million passenger screenings), but the company declined to say how many were returned to their owners.

In a year, about 4,400 lost items are turned in, said Brian Dolan, a spokesman for the L.I.R.R.

All these lost items are our history, and they shouldn't just be left in the ground to rot and disappear.

The sharp increase in returning lost items is due in large part to Mr. Chidester's efforts to computerize the operation.

The laboratory's system of reporting lost items is conducive to covering up thefts, said the internal report, prepared in March by the facility's Office of Security Inquiries.

Looking for lost items is not as easy as it seems, unless you are so lucky to find it with one try.

Phones never stop ringing (because patients often feel abandoned) and questions are repeated (because answers can't be retained) and no lost item is ever found (because moments after it's located, loved ones start looking for it again).

Neither lasts very long (probably to save battery life) so unless your lost item is not actually very lost you're likely to need to trigger this multiple times as you go a-hunting.

Also interesting is a tweet from Engadget writer (and former attorney) Nilay Patel, "Here's an interesting fact: in California, the finder of a lost item is required to tell the police and turn it over to rightful owner".