1.   As she felt the pressure of his steady gaze she lost her sense of authority and began to feel awkward and girlish.

2.   As she worked, she became so engrossed that she lost all sense of time.

3.   He never lost his sense of humor, even when he was half asleep.

4.   He seemed to have lost all sense of proportion.

5.   His death quite literally shattered the Prince and for a time he lost all sense of purpose.

6.   I just lost all sense of direction, of purpose.

7.   It took him six hours to make a long, thin rope, but he had lost all sense of time.

8.   Lurching along in this enclosed space, one loses all sense of direction.

9.   People think our country has lost its sense of purpose and direction.