lost
adjective
no longer possessed or retained.
unlost
-
a word derived from
lost.
Example Sentences
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In the '30 she popped up all over the dial looking for her supposedly lost brother, a long-running gag that drove her real, unlost brother, a San Francisco accountant, into hiding.
From Time Magazine Archive
You can hear the attempt of his breath, that unlost voice, calling us from the bottom of the world.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
Though plunged into the centre of a surrounding wilderness or ocean of minds, it must still retain itself unlost in the multitude.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
Leave, ah, leave, Leave me unlost, Force on me not Thy fiery nearness.
From The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Let us hear the charge, 'Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord,' and see that we carry them, untarnished and unlost, to 'the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
