mislay

How To Use mislay In A Sentence

• It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign. Barbarossa
• Or a few outstanding debts you chanced to mislay in your indecent haste to depart ?
• I don't know if it's just a phase, or separation related, but as we walk to school, or around the neighbourhood at the weekend, they both hold on for dear life, as if they might mislay me somewhere between the supermarket and the house. Diary of a separation
• Tottenham's Ledley King will now have his groin operation next week after mislaying his passport. Tottenham's Ledley King misses groin operation after passport fiasco
• Did you often mislay these farm chemicals?
• Now owned by Robin Bextor, a television director who sometimes shoots the videos for his daughter Sophie Ellis Bextor, there is an appealing and understated stylishness to the place, which makes it just perfect for the mislaying of whole afternoons. The 20 best places to eat in Britain this summer
• Somehow, the shop managed to mislay the actual CD and all they can find is the sleeve, though they've assured me the disk is lying around somewhere and I hope to pop in over lunch and take it home with me.
• The pragmatist had a habit of mislaying essential objects: cameras, tickets, notes, on one never-to-be-forgotten occasion a passport. LOADED QUESTIONS
• I shall hope for it if you have, and I will leave with you on Monday morning my random reconing for the last year of what I have received, your Books will supply the dates which I have lost through mislaying a paper. Letter 275
• I suspect that when other people mislay things they make sure that your husband doesn't find out, but you can't. Jean's Knitting