mislaid

How To Use mislaid In A Sentence

• A quick query brought profuse apologies - her order had been mislaid.
• Sydney and introduced a momentum that England had temporarily mislaid. Times, Sunday Times
• Thus Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself. Chance A Tale in Two Parts
• In a situation described as udder chaos, officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) admitted in Parliamentary questions that 20,979 of the animals had been mislaid. Nothing To Do With Arbroath
• The "mislaid" rationale presumes the existence of a living owner, or the vigilance of the depositor's descendants; only occasionally can it be helpful for older artifacts, such as those in Idaho, as the likelihood of the original depositor's return diminishes with each passing year. The Slow Death of Treasure Trove
• They're now going back over the call-tape (anyone want to bet it's been ‘mislaid’?) to see what the tosspot actually said.
• Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend -- I won't say _a propos de bottes_ as the French would excellently put it, but literally _a propos_ of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself. Chance
• Golf had hardly come in, and when one wasn't playing cricket, and the spilliken set had been mislaid, and tiddley-winks was voted too rough, a couple of sets or so was rather fun. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914
• I can only conclude that it must have been mislaid or misfiled.
• In a situation described as udder chaos, officials at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Defra admitted in Parliamentary questions that 20,979 of the animals had been mislaid. Archive 2008-10-01