Sentence examples for mislaid in from inspiring English sources

Its protagonist, however, is soon mislaid in another sense as well.

His confession had probably been mislaid in the police records office.

He mails the film to the manufacturer but it is mislaid in the developing room and never found.

I'm guessing that some crucial element was perhaps mislaid in transit; in that shadowy period between conception and delivery.

The nitrate film disintegrated, but a single set of surviving prints was mislaid in a photography archive after his death.

Johann Sebastian took a great interest in the music of his ancestors: he collected and performed it, but much of it was mislaid in the second world war.

Furthermore, the numbers of nest eggs and mislaid eggs in each compartment were recorded every day.

Not much use to the woman who'd mislaid them in some second-century crush.

Tom Antenen, a Correction Department spokesman, said planning had minimized hardships, but he acknowleged that medical, financial and other records had been mislaid occasionally in such moves.

He added that because the evidence had not been seen before it was taken by the F.B.I., it was impossible to know if parts of it had been lost or mislaid while in its hands.

I mislaid a jacket in Osaka, costly shorts in south-west Ireland, another sweater goodness knows where, and the losses got to me.