mislay

In Britain (or at least England), the tradition of sectarian enmity was not so much purged from the body politic as mislaid.

Auctioneer: Er, er. . . yes. Now, what did I do with it? Oh dear, I seem to have mislaid it, officer.

There was no panic from Mourinho at the first mislaid points of the Premiership season for the Blues.

m awfully sorry , but I seem to have mislaid your books.

I'm sorry, I seem to have mislaid my ticket.

Curiously enough, they went on believing this even after the mislaid key was found under a sack of meal.

Are security measures in place to prevent mislaid quotations and unauthorized release of information ?

The library records all of these items as " mislaid " rather than gone for ever, still less stolen.

Very preoccupied, he got into his train, mislaid his ticket.

They searched out the mislaid book at last.

You can't have left your purse in the glass cabinet. You must have mislaid it somewhere else .

Yesterday I mislaid my biology book, and it took me about a half hour to find it.

But that isn't exactly what happened, because the airline mislaid my bike.

I found it, and now I've mislaid it! I must have dropped it!

You may not have entirely lost your bearings, but you have temporarily mislaid them.

Perhaps I have only mislaid it.

How do you find a thing you have mislaid or forgotten?

Mislaid in the burning hay