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be lost in something
be completely absorbed
If you are lost in something, you are so absorbed in it that you stop noticing what is happening around you.
Hear it in real life
Why did you miss your stop?
I was lost in a podcast.
He was lost in thought and did not hear the doorbell.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: She was lost on a book.
Say: She was lost in a book.
Use "lost in" before the activity or thing absorbing your attention.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
be lost in a book; be lost in thought; be lost in music
Your turn: say it out loud
He was lost in thought and did not hear the doorbell.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
be lost in something
be completely absorbed
“He was lost in thought and did not hear the doorbell.”
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