How To Use Stray In A Sentence

Halpern kept his arms crossed and eyes forward, while Ren was grinning and tucking a few stray hairs up under a mesh caul.
She was so popular with my friends and all the strays who freeloaded at our “house” that she began to have her own collection of adopted sons and daughters I never knew about. One From The Hart
Helping him to do so, meanwhile, is Proteus' feisty betrothed, Marina, who gives as good as she gets in helping to ensure Sinbad doesn't stray from his path, while winning over the respect of his crew.
THERE have been many reports about the numbers of stray and abandoned animals in rescue centres. The Sun
But their recording finds them in less than top form, and Solti sometimes leads them astray.

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Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight. Virginia: the Old Dominion
This regress is signalled not only by increases in mental confusion but by typography less and less coherent, the type straying over the page, and with some pages simply blank.
Tourists often get lost and stray into dangerous areas.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority, he strayed into a two-mile wide no-fly zone over Heysham nuclear power station.
When Glenn McGrath ricked his ankle while stepping on a stray cherry in Australia's pre-match warm-up, the façade of fear that had been erected during the Lord's debacle was torn down in an instant.
Stray too far in one direction and you devolve into saccharine sentimentality, go the other direction and you risk crass exploitation.
All stray sheep were collected in the pinfold until the owners came to collect them.
Some of the country is like England, undulating, rolling, well-cultivated fields, enclosed with pailings which overlap each other and would be awkwardish obstacles in a hunting country; but one misses, like abroad, the cattle -- we saw one or two stray cows, but little else. A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
None rested quiet or mute for a second, except the one who kept close as his shadow to her father's side, and unwittingly was treated by him less like the other children, than like some stray spirit of another world, caught and held jealously, but without much outward notice, lest haply it might take alarm, and vanish back again unawares. John Halifax, Gentleman
Nothing seemed to be astray, everything was in its place.
One stray click and I'm rickrolled, prankishly diverted to the now-familiar footage of Rick Astley being devoured by a pack of London cannibals. Wired Top Stories
But most guests prefer a more active role on the ranch: herding cattle from one pasture to another, rounding up strays, and learning team penning, roping, or cutting.
The Russian air force scrambled a fighter jet to intercept a Manchester-bound airliner that had strayed into its air space
For all his bold chivalry this watchful Celt seems surely to have strayed from a wayside pulpit.
Good luck and God bless you wherever you stray, The world for me ended at mail call today.
Gardeners regularly stroll the grounds, picking up stray pieces of trash and trimming unruly bushes.
I helped myself to breakfast, doing my best not to spill too many cornflakes and cleaned up afterwards, crawling under the table to chase stray flakes.
There is still something almost mythical about a piece of metal that can inspire and assuage all the bitterness of political posturing and stray dog culls. Times, Sunday Times
The bulk of the victims appear to be ordinary people who happen to have strayed across the media's radar.
The players were subdued, passes went astray, and the game lost any intensity.
Andrew smiled unconsciously and reached out the back of his hand to stroke away stray hairs.
Her hair she wore in a lace snood that let a few stray wisps of curly blonde hair fall into her face.
An th 'chilt might ha deed, and t' cattle might ha strayed, and t 'geyats might ha opened o' theirsels! The History of David Grieve
Their still sleek coats show that these are not tough strays but pets, unsuited to the lonely arts of survival. Times, Sunday Times
One journalist was hit in the leg by a stray bullet.
The fickle nature of hurricanes straying so far north means that there may only be hours of warning before a hurricane strikes. Times, Sunday Times
One early high note goes alarmingly astray. Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the children of Israel had begun to stray after the daughters of Moav and to worship their idols.
The text is peppered with gossipy asides and lengthy footnotes that often stray wildly off the subject. The Times Literary Supplement
I was always told that the chupacabra was a mythical beast that was used to keep children from straying far from home, as in: Don't go out there, because the chupacabra might get you, KHOU - Home
Her hair is plastered down with only a few stray hairs escaping.
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.
The Swindon Branch operates a lost and found register to assist those who are concerned about a stray or whose cat has disappeared.
The world is full of stray cats, many of them searching hopefully for a new home.
We didn't stray, we didn't cry uncle, we didn't concede anything that would affect us in the long run.
Despite the fact that they suck in material from anything and everything strays, they are empty.
The stray dogs are wormed and treated with flea powder.
Then one night a stray cat meowed demandingly at her screen door. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats
The situation is so bad that artistes are now straying to greener pastures.
It was a good company with a terrible balance sheet that had gone astray on some things. Times, Sunday Times
A tribe of stray cats scattered as I turned into the yard where Ellen's apartment lay.
He was asked how such a patriot could stop his mind straying to thoughts of managing the national side. Times, Sunday Times
Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now.
A very wise man says it is better to go after one stray sheep than stay with 99 sheep who are safe in the fold.
In addition all the electric motors are of low magnetic material content and have compensated stray fields.
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
strayed far from home
He felt his eyes straying to the Croce al Trebbio, the little granite column in the center of the piazza upon which a little bronze warrior proudly bore his sword.
The only sound is the boom of artillery and the only signs of life are bands of stray cats. Times, Sunday Times
Use a cotton bud dipped in white vinegar to remove any stray hair dye from your skin. Times, Sunday Times
Andrew raised his eyebrows, but his eyes didn't stray from his own face as he continued to toy with his hair.
The Red Arrows aerobatic team had to take emergency action to avoid a tragedy when a microlight aircraft strayed into its airspace at Elvington Airshow, the RAF revealed today.
This is what leads Internet companies astray. THE 22 IMMUTABLE LAWS OF BRANDING
The direction and value of horizontal stray field induced by the toroidal field coils and primary windings are determined using vertical displacement data.
She ensures this comedy doesn't stray too far from the troublesome emotions from which the other characters are seeking refuge. Times, Sunday Times
I fixed the last stray hair and turned to open the door.
Dear Mollie -- I was glad to know that bound with the fetters of Science, and depressed by thought, you were Struggling yet to ascend the rugged Steep -- where "Star eyed Science" and fame unfold their banners to every anxious aspirant, and under whose folds of magnitude and magnificence all alike are permitted to recumb, and recur those who have in vagrancy strayed "tracing Shadows" -- beware of Letter from Young John Allen to Mollie Houston,June 2, 1854
Romley strayed from the fold only recently, daring to oppose Symington on juvenile-justice reform.
They are infinite, I am thinking, all these hungry, grasping people chasing after the new and improved, the super and imperishable, and I stand alone against them - but that's the kind of thinking that led me astray all those years ago.
During this period both teams tried hard to open up the play but far too often hand passes went astray and possession was lost.
What's even more irritating is the angle the reporter used, which is the presumably counter-intuitive notion that heart attacks kill more hunters than stray bullets. Hunters with Hangovers?
Civic officials are flummoxed as there is a ban on killing stray dogs.
Stray outside - even to cut a corner between meanders - and you'll shudder onto a mudflat like those raiding warships. Times, Sunday Times
And, oh, maiden! "added the queen, with benevolent warmth," steel not thy heart against her -- listen with ductile senses to her gentle ministry; and may God and His Son prosper that pious lady's counsel, so that it may win a new strayling to the Immortal Fold! Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete
Use a fireguard if you have children, and fit smoke alarms in case a spark goes astray.
He strayed as close to the house as he dared, positioning -himself beneath the boughs of a tree at the edge of the lawn. AMAGANSETT
Disunity can also prove fatal - wildebeests or caribou that stray away from the main herd are far more likely to fall victim to lions or wolves.
His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession.
He says that when burning oak powder it's possible that a spark could have gone astray.
Properly she should now retreat to the blessed silence of the cloister whence she strayed into the pulpit.
Many girls living alone in the city, go astray for lack of parental control.
She estimates that over the years she has picked up as many as 100 strays and had them spayed or neutered.
One reason that no one ever discovered their hideout was because no one ever dared to stray too far into the forest.
Timothy tenderly swept stray locks of hair from her face.
Ellen entered a dress shop housed in a blue velvet capsule adorned by odd lights and displays while Henry strayed purposelessly into the bookstore.
Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson - USATODAY. com Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson
The dads were out roving around town making sure no little child strayed too far in search of hidden eggs.
The transactions are secure, so the cash does not go astray or disappear; nor can it be forged easily.
The former stray, who had been Mr Boffey's companion for the past three years, was later found unharmed in another farm vehicle.
The culpability is greater when the intention of deceiving entails the risk of deadly consequences for those who are led astray.
She had never strayed beyond the city boundaries.
After this non-stop day where he seemed particularly hell bent on making a mess of my house, the figures have been joined by a small red Hot Wheels Corvette race car parked next to one of the sheep, a half-drunk bottle of blue Gatorade, standing quite close to Joseph and a stray piece of pepperoni from the pizza we ordered tonight within spitting distance of the baby Jesus. December 2002
It's leading people astray giving the message it's ok to drink lots.
adherent" enjoyed friendly consideration, especially if he adhered faithfully; and stray attendants from other congregations were treated with punctilious hospitality, places being found for them in the Old The Imperialist
In catering to the largest possible audience, producers and reporters are led astray from their social and civic responsibilities.
With an annual membership fee of 6,000 ngultrum, roughly $130, Bhutan's golfers are mostly limited to the upper echelons of society - government officials and diplomats, plus a few stray Japanese tourists.
Six was a phantom - a ghost, a ghoul, a phantasm, a hallucination, a side effect of Stray's medicine, some unknown effect of acid, something of that sort.
He and two Stanford colleagues analyzed the results of more than 6,500 congressional races between 1956 and 1996 and concluded that voters hold their legislators accountable for voting that strays from the district's ideological core. Loyalty to Obama Costs Democrats
The weather in Santa Teresa has been straying from the norm of late.
We seem to be straying from the main theme of the debate.
Some of the most poorly received episodes have been the ones that strayed into the supernatural.
Luggage that went astray every time (then being expected to tip the delivery guy when it was dropped off the next day) and yes - just like you, some of the surly announcements over the tannoy, by jaded, well-past-there-useby staff. Unexpected
VS models basically coined the term 'bombshell waves,' and last night lead hair stylist Orlando Pita didn't stray from the message. Backstage At The Victoria's Secret Fashion With Karlie Kloss & Joan Smalls
Most people see a cuddly stray dog or cat as something to pet and perhaps take home as a pet.
This story is about this woman who worked for the humane society and euthanized a stray cat.
She pushed a stray curl away from her eyes.
She is employed as a domestic helper but the employers treat her no better than a stray dog.
His tongue even strayed out to moisten them.
Frequently we tend to be led astray by the fanciful language of introspective psychology.
She anxiously put a hand to her bangs, fixing imaginary strays and adjusting the many colored, chunky plastic bracelets on her arm.
`They found a couple of strays," Laura Hardy said, repressing a smile. THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39)
In a remarkably short space of time the hyenas and pariah dogs had adopted the habit of scavengering around all the camps and snifting along the track, after the trains, for stray scraps. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan
A stray bullet whistled past his ear.
Yes," Westray said dubitatively; "I suppose it couldn't be construed into attempting to outwit her, could it? The Nebuly Coat
No queerer estray ever drifted along the stream of life. CHAPTER III
Enigma was going well by this stage, but intelligence realised there must be another system when a stray teleprinter message was picked up by a listening post in Kent.
There were suggestions of team officials finding stray dogs asleep on beds. Times, Sunday Times
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The Russian air force scrambled a fighter jet to intercept a Manchester-bound airliner that had strayed into its air space
The fitting shown above was reduced to something resembling Swiss cheese by stray current, according to the surveyor who examined it.
P.S. No name needful, for you will not be astray about the hand. Tales and Novels — Volume 04
But where you and I diverge is this fear that consumers might somehow be led astray by these designations. Cautiously Raising a Glass to Single-Vineyard Finger Lakes Wines
But there are areas that you stray into at your peril. Times, Sunday Times
As a result, he'd get us all into trouble by leading us astray. Times, Sunday Times
The Corporation made a most liberal offer, perhaps thought too generous, seeing that the real ownership of the soil of the Strays rested with them, and the Freemen's rights only extended to the herbage or pasturage.
Given the sorry state of the pets for sale in the weekend markets and the indifference of the local population, farangs as well as Thais, to scabrous stray animals this dream was put on hold.
a stray dog
His clawed hand never strayed from the hilt of a long sword at his left hip.
The difficulty of keeping soldiers from straying out of quarters by night, would have sufficiently accounted for the appearance of a straggling foot-soldier; but it was more difficult to account for a mounted horseman, in full armour; and such was the apparition which a peculiarly bright glimpse of moonlight now showed at the bottom of the causewayed hill. Castle Dangerous
Roxy and Virgie, in their clean Sunday suits, loitered around the bridge behind the store, or strayed a little way up the Manokin brook, hearing the mocking-bird rend his breast in all the ventriloquy of genius. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
Equally unforgettable, but less celebrated, is Billy Strayhorn. Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Driving Miss Daisy and The Music of Billy Strayhorn
I have to tread carefully, because certain persons who might claim to have been there too are liable to be up in arms the moment I stray more than an inch from the truth.
Now, as they resumed their way, the trees altered and drew farther apart, the ground was solid under foot, and through the foliage of the euphorbia and raphia palm came stray glimmers of sunshine, bits of blue sky, birds, voices, and the whisper of a breeze. The Pools of Silence
It is essential, however, that these paths intersect at key points, so one can stray or purposively deviate from an easier trail to a more difficult one (or from a more defined to a less defined one).
Her eyes kept straying over to the clock on the wall.
Use a cotton bud dipped in white vinegar to remove any stray hair dye from your skin. Times, Sunday Times
Separate teams of elections workers inspect each ballot and fish out the "snags" -- ballots that are damaged or have smudges, stray markings or improperly filled-in bubbles. AroundTheCapitol.com
oh go on wayne, you are not. you've somnambulated through life from one talking point to the next with nary a stray spike in the e.e.g. to indicate consciousness. ... whereupon he smote reality a mighty blow.
Straying from the grocery list can yield some surprises in your shopping cart, but not necessarily in your wallet, according to University of Pittsburgh researchers and a coresearcher from Baylor University who have coauthored a new study. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Stray finds are more commonly discovered than whole new sites.
The text is peppered with gossipy asides and lengthy footnotes that often stray wildly off the subject. The Times Literary Supplement
But a steaming hot one with a detachable nozzle wouldn't go astray.
In contrast to the suggestion of its title, ‘Chiaro’ changes the atmosphere to something twilit, as though the listener had strayed from sunlit beaches into a shadowy jungle full of hidden creatures.
Sadly, many of the sites she finds appear to be neglected and covered in stray cats or buried beneath apartment buildings and football stadiums. Times, Sunday Times
Her desk was long and perfectly organized, no papers astray, knick-knacks aligned along her bookshelf along with portraits of her children, I assumed.
But one of these animals brought death to this small village, when a stray dog went on the rampage, biting seven children.
Now and then, a rickshaw wallah or an empty tonga, driver half asleep, weary horse barely moving, strayed across their path. TANK OF SERPENTS
The heavy rain made us stray.
I can arrive at work, my hair smartly coiffed in place with a giant claw clip, bobby pins keeping any strays in place.
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sign.
At length poor Mrs. Camford uttered a faint cry, which called Thisbe's attention back to the spot from whence it never should have strayed, -- her mistress 'cushioned chair, -- and she rushed in a sort of frenzy for the nerve-reviver, and applied it to the trembling lady's nostrils; whereupon that delicately-constituted specimen of the genus feminine uttered a stentorian shriek and flounced about the room like an irate porcupine, greatly to the terror of Alice, who had never witnessed such a scene before. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems
He'd have to chance wandering astray in the woods.
He looked on the neck and found it had no collar, so he was probably a stray.
Slowly, he raised his hand to brush a few stray tendrils of hair from her face.
Y: "And to you there came Joseph in times gone by, with Clear Signs, but ye ceased not to doubt of the (Mission) for which he had come: At length, when he died, ye said: 'No messenger will Allah send after him.' thus doth Allah leave to stray such as transgress and live in doubt," - Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side
I actually had not planned on seeing this movie until today, but a misprinted movie schedule led me astray with tales of Sunday afternoon French movies.
By 1932 the gold standard had strayed so far from purity, so far from what it could and should have been, that its weakness contributed signally to its final breakdown in 1933.
The wasp strays in, eats a little honey, warms itself, tries to sting and travels out to some winter lair.
And he has a string of bands to take to the stage to help raise cash for abandoned and stray cats and dogs.
She still had some stray flower petals in her hair; red ones, beautiful with her coloring.
It has been derided by some critics as straying too far from historical fact in order to show a well-polished fiction.
No wonder Morshead's eyes regularly stray skyward, as dark clouds canter across furlongs of watery blue.
These are not stray and ill-considered comments.
I could feel the cold starting to numb my ears and cheeks, and a few stray rainspecks hit my skin.
Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson
The waifs, strays, deodands, goods of felons and fugitives, etc., within the hundred belonged to the lord if the bailiff of the hundred seized them first.
We have erred and strayed like lost sheep. Times, Sunday Times
It is fairly safe to assume that any bird you see will be in its proper location and not a stray from abroad or the western part of the continent.
Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sign.
Tavistock Street already has a number of problems which seem to be exacerbated by a policy of housing the waifs and strays of the borough nearby.
Recent articles and letters suggest a bollard is not a popular proposal in the Straylands area.
The judge thought he'd been led astray by older children.
Brand inspectors, who rooted out cattle thieves, tracked down stray steers, and kept the peace in the stockyards, had become the de facto law of the range by the time he joined their ranks in 1949.
But you might lie round among grandmother's feet for days, and, except for a stray cuff in passing if she actually walked into you -- a cuff given in the purest spirit of love and good-will, and merely as a warning of the worse thing that might happen to you if you made her spill the dinner "sowens" -- you might spend your days in reading anything from the _Arabian Nights_ in Uncle Eben's old tattered edition to the mighty _Josephus_, all complete with plans and plates -- over which on The Dew of Their Youth
Three of the soldiers strayed into enemy territory.
His eyes straying over the windows, his breath caught in his throat as a new burst of anger erupted in his veins.
Do some investigators stray over the line into illegality? Times, Sunday Times
Had I left some clue behind, a stray sock not his, an unfamiliar scent on the pillow?
They were dogs that had not the karma of household pets, or strays at the pound, but that of the seekers of ecumenical truth.
Such "estray" or "feral" horses are not covered by the 1971 law that protects established herds of free-roaming mustangs. Latest News - UPI.com
A little finger explored the button on Stray's hat with fascination.
Properly interpreted and monitored, the quarter mill map can prevent anything from a stray into controlled airspace to a fatal accident.
And while you might pet a stray dog and accidentally touch a scabby sore or some other yuck, the rabies fears seemed unsubstantiated and the cities haven't taken to rounding up the lot for the public safety.
When I get back to my hotel the surly doorman, who has never been known to stray from his fully enclosed cubicle, grunts at me.
Her hand strayed to the hilt of the small dagger that hung from a black leather belt about her waist at all times, and she took three wary paces forward.
She rarely strays down the path of ponderous self-importance that often blights this genre.
Hazel sat with her lips clamped together, lest a stray word escape and incriminate her. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
Nobody was killed by a panicked deer or a stray arrow to spoil her happiness.
Properly interpreted and monitored, the quarter mill map can prevent anything from a stray into controlled airspace to a fatal accident.
During this period she herds stray animals to her seashore cave, where she feeds them during the cold months.
Watch out for stray ballista bolts, javelins etc, and avoid all the experimental kilns as they tend to explode.
Like Lessing during the 1960s, Frances is a ‘housemother’, who fills her large home with an eclectic mixture of waifs, strays and scroungers.
None of them recognized her or had seen a black stray.
His distribution was also hit and miss and he had strayed into an offside position when he put the ball in the net with his only shot of the match.
Over the next two days, it grew clear to me that this gentleman had simply been led astray by his employers.
Though made of bronze, "Many Glacier" was constructed originally out of twisted, weathered, "stray, downed pieces of wood," which the artist collects on her Montana ranch and in Hawaii; and the ghostly, whitewashed sculpture—a controlled state of collapse—suggests stone, petrified wood and a scrapheap of bones. Soaring Heights, A Sense of Horses
No. Strays isn't mentalist enough to veer off in that kind of direction, it's all too tight.
That such thoughts strayed in between the gales of laughter is enough endorsement. Times, Sunday Times
If an axe handle was handy, that wouldn't go astray, either.
Her parents fear that, living in this neighbourhood, she might stray into the wrong company.
Over the years he admits he has at times strayed from that lofty ideal.
The Subarus tires whined along the asphalt, a stray gray thread in the khaki weavesage and hardpan, cheatgrass and bitterbrush. Burned
It seemed to be a healthy animal, not a wild stray, and more importantly, it sported a black collar.
When the passengers take off from Westray they can see the windsock on the runway a mile and a half away on Papa Westray.

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