astray

How To Use astray In A Sentence

• His mind was blank; and then from nowhere came the silly lyrics: `We are poor little lambs who have gone astray, baa, baa, baa... FAMILY PICTURES
• His mind was blank; and then from nowhere came the silly lyrics: `We are poor little lambs who have gone astray, baa, baa, baa... FAMILY PICTURES
• But their recording finds them in less than top form, and Solti sometimes leads them astray.
• Nothing seemed to be astray, everything was in its place.
• The players were subdued, passes went astray, and the game lost any intensity.
• One early high note goes alarmingly astray. Times, Sunday Times
• Even the vanilla buttercream piped onto an otherwise agreeable vanilla cupcake had a grainy, crystallized texture on one of my visits, as if the ratio of butter to sugar had gone astray.
• It was a good company with a terrible balance sheet that had gone astray on some things. Times, Sunday Times
• Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now.
• He found him in a dull room, fadedly furnished, much as I had found him in his barrack-room but a little while before, except that he was not writing but was sitting with a book before him, from which his eyes and thoughts were far astray. Bleak House