Example Sentences

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The victim told BBC News NI that Sloan had said he would help her look for her mobile phone, which she had misplaced.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2022

When I had misplaced an elderly relative, the entire staff put aside what they were doing to notify the police, the troopers and another ferry terminal.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 3, 2022

“It was simply part of the air I breathed that Joe Mankiewicz was a man who had misplaced his decency at birth and never even bothered to look for it,” Davis writes.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2021

As she dug through the hamper in search of her birth certificate, which she was now worried she had misplaced, a sheet of paper fluttered out.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2019

She had misplaced her awareness of her true body reposed in her true bed, and of the moth on Lazlo’s brow.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor