straying

How To Use straying In A Sentence

• We're straying into ethnic issues here.
• We seem to be straying from the main theme of the debate.
• But by straying beyond those areas Ai made himself vulnerable. Times, Sunday Times
• The way a straying partner restores trust is to go out of his way to prove his trustworthiness to you.
• Shouldn't I have had the right to choose whether I wanted my straying spouse back?
• And then the horses were immediately hoppled, four feet tied together, and turned out of camp and a guard placed beyond them, to keep them from straying too far or drive them in if attacked. Autobiography of John Ball - Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832
• If all else fails, you could fence off the path to prevent straying. Times, Sunday Times
• Nancy, tossing her head with a characteristic motion to get the grey curls away from her fearless blue eyes; whereupon the tucking comb slipped down and had to be replaced, "You ain't a-goin 'out thar," she whispered vehemently from under her raised arm, as she redded back the straying locks with it. Judith of the Cumberlands
• For it is a "cottonwood" -- a species not found elsewhere upon the same plain; its seed no doubt transported thither by some straying bird. The Death Shot A Story Retold
• Seated in the club of late, I found my eyes straying to the walls.