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UK
/fˈɔːɹeɪ/
]
[ US /ˈfɔɹeɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɔɹeɪ/ ]
NOUN
- a sudden short attack
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an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
scientists' forays into politics
VERB
-
steal goods; take as spoils
During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners - briefly enter enemy territory
How To Use foray In A Sentence
- This was followed by an ignominious foray in inflatable boats, where again only a miracle averted tragedy. Times, Sunday Times
- The Duke's foray into the world of contemporary art yielded equally predictable results. Times, Sunday Times
- Newman's foray into Monophysitism, still operating from the hermeneutic established in his work on Arianism, helped to pave the way for his conversion.
- A misguided foray into middle-eastern politics, it may well be their lyrical nadir, their trademark synth-pop swamped in a hideous 80s production.
- Its also pretty self evidently false, as the briefest foray into the science and its history will tell you.
- They soon made their first foray. Times, Sunday Times
- So, Washington's temperature soared into the springlike 70s three times in five days, a true and welcome departure from wintry weeks of chill in which the mercury had not forayed even so high as 60. Record-breaking weather, whether in coolness or warmth
- The film may not be as elegant as the previous financial procedurals, and Costa-Gavras' brief forays into cinematic trickery threaten our suspension of disbelief.
- We make regular forays to France to buy wine.
- Carly Otness/BFA DJ Nick Cohen Ludlow Manor, Mr. Carl's latest foray into nightlife, is an over-the-top triplex space with a tapas restaurant on the ground floor and palm trees on the rooftop. Tacos to Tapas: Hot on the Scene
