Sentence examples for lost missing from inspiring English sources

Their quest is to find a lost poet from an earlier literary movement, the wonderfully named "stridentists" (lost, missing, exiled and orphaned poets are - along with prostitutes - a key motif in Bolano's work).

"They said that it was lost, missing, somebody had borrowed it," she told me.

Books, printed music, and some audio-visual materials that are currently unavailable at Cornell, e.g., checked out, lost, missing, at the bindery, etc.

We connected to her terrible loneliness, a privileged person living in vast houses, a woman who was making mistakes, getting lost, missing steps, getting confused.

The report by the department's inspector general found that from late 1999 through last January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and four other Justice Department agencies had reported 775 weapons as lost, missing or stolen.

Whether they are victims of crime, people who are lost, missing or confused, people hurt in road accidents, those with mental health conditions in crisis, the suicidal, the frightened, the defenceless.

Opportunities were lost, missed, unrecognized or unfulfilled.

"Athletes and fans alike, focused as we so often are on the game of winning and losing, miss the deeper significance that is right before our eyes.

Not to mention getting the 'Are you sure you're not lost, miss?' looks, or having male friends addressed when I was the one shopping, got tiresome".

Losing Miss Sturgess is the biggest tragedy in this – three children have lost their mum," Daszkiewicz said.

By losing, Miss Gadusek and Miss Leand failed to qualify for the eight-player winter tour championship that starts Wednesday in New York.