How To Use Straying In A Sentence
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We're straying into ethnic issues here.
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We seem to be straying from the main theme of the debate.
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But by straying beyond those areas Ai made himself vulnerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The way a straying partner restores trust is to go out of his way to prove his trustworthiness to you.
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Shouldn't I have had the right to choose whether I wanted my straying spouse back?
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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
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If all else fails, you could fence off the path to prevent straying.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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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
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Seated in the club of late, I found my eyes straying to the walls.
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With a mongrel of overcast sun straying to and from her heels, she scoured all three for conspicuous features related to light.
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found the straying sheep
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We seem to be straying from the main theme of the debate.
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Nobody even dared to look at me when I ran out: George was shooting daggers at any straying eyes.
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The soldiers stiffened, their hands straying closer to the triggers pointed at her people.
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OTOH, straying too far risks wasting an egg on a male with whom the female is NOT interfertile.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Interracial Marriage Rates Going Up
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He falls silent for a moment, his eyes straying back to the movie.
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The demon turned with me, pivoting smoothly on his feet, his eyes never straying from mine.
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Never straying too far from the title metaphor, Sting depicts the rise and fall of human fortunes and emotions, the cycles of despair and hope as reliable as day after night, spring after winter, warm after cold.
Mercury Falling
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So I showed them how I walked with the bent-kneed stride of the cattle herder, how I leaned on my staff while talking with my gaze far away as if in search of a straying cow.
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Her eyes kept straying over to the clock on the wall.
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After the war, her costume ‘is covered, winter and summer, by a frayed macintosh… and she now wears a hat as well - a thing like a basket pulled down over her straying, pepper-and-salt hair’.
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George tripped along the tape like a peewit, never straying from the white.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Of course, never straying skyward in the first place limits our exposure to bike wrecks, road rage, drive-bys.
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But another minister accused him of straying from the line agreed in cabinet.
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The candidate, by contrast, is constantly straying off-message and free-associating.
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Her own husband is the wife's straying partner.
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Straying into territory more usually the preserve of English or philosophy professors, they have decided that the problem with their work is not how it is done.
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His whippers-in rap out commands to straying hounds in their unreproducible, never varying, clipped tones.
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Gus stood at the table, toying with a cue stick, his eyes straying lazily over the billiard balls scattered about the table in the array of an unfinished game.
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The officials are keenly aware they risk ruffling customers by straying outside the boundaries of its conservative styling.
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The regular ambulance wagons of the medical department, two-wheeled and four-wheeled, were too few in number to meet the demand, and vehicles of every description from the artillery and other trains, _prolonges_, provision vans, everything on wheels that could be picked up on the battlefield, came rolling up with their ghastly loads; and later in the day even carrioles and market-gardeners 'carts were pressed into the service and harnessed to horses that were found straying along the roads.
The Downfall
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In any city, straying from the beaten path pays off.
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Cats will be cats and the lions despite feeding are still straying.
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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
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The presentation of straying males is, then, much less censorious.
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Truly those in sin are the ones straying in mind , and mad.
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For such a risky venture, the reasons for straying outside that safety zone of London is to pick-up more fans.
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But another minister accused him of straying from the line agreed in cabinet.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Stephen Crowley stooped before a lovely carnation, and smelled, and _smelled_, drawing in long breaths, as though he meant to take its fragrance all away with him; and Nimble Dick picked up the straying end of an ivy, and restored it to its support again, in a way that was not to be lost sight of by one who was looking for hearts; and Dirk Colson brushed back his matted hair and stood long before a great, pure lily, and looked down into its heart with an expression on his face that his teacher never forgot.
Ester Ried Yet Speaking
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The ships weapons department assumed trash detail and the carriers Marines and masters-at-arms sealed off the sick bay, blocking reporters and curious sailors from straying too close.
The Attack on the Liberty
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The shepherd traveled at the rear of his flock, depending on his dog to range ahead, prevent wrong turns, retrieve ewes inclined to straying.
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Clearly some ill-wisher had set a trap baited with this dainty for his dream-soul, intending to do him grievous bodily, or rather spiritual, harm; and for the next few nights great pains were taken to keep his soul from straying abroad in his sleep.
Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul. § 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul
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At its foot, Harland disconnects a telephone call, his eyes nonchalantly straying to hers.
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After the war, Miss Stuart's costume ‘is covered, winter and summer, by a frayed macintosh… and she now wears a hat as well - a thing like a basket pulled down over her straying, pepper-and-salt hair’.
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But the likelihood that some people failed to fess up about straying wouldn't undercut the study.
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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
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It even seems to be straying into lurid, B-movie territory as we enter an all too familiar asylum where the patients haunt the corridors, drugged or demented.
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When high street banks offer 0.1% annual interest, how can anyone offer nearly 500 times as much without straying into frauds or swindles?
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He remembered also how he, having once helped an Eastern visitor catch the mustang that had "bucked" him, had been called "my man," and presented with five dollars; he recalled how he had once spread the humble resources of his cabin before some straying members of the San Francisco party who were "opening" the new railroad, and heard the audible wonder of a lady that a civilized being could live so "coarsely"?
Tales of Trail and Town
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Just the prospect of Alliss straying off piste is increasingly welcome in the post Ross-Brand sanitised BBC.
Peter Alliss: the pork pie of golf commentators | Martin Kelner
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The walk should be reserved for a clear day as much of the high ground is relatively featureless and there is always the danger of straying too near the steep cliffs.
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While filming, she learned that Bhutanese monks performing religious ceremonies in people's homes often found their eyes straying to the television in the corner.
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But by straying beyond those areas Ai made himself vulnerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scott started to confide in a woman he worked with, a woman he describes as homely, someone he could safely talk to without the risk of straying.
CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2007
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But what? methinks I deserve to be pounded, for straying from poetry to oratory: but both have such an affinity in this wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding: which is not to take upon me to teach poets how they should do, but only finding myself sick among the rest, to show some one or two spots of the common infection, grown among the most part of writers: that, acknowledging ourselves somewhat awry, we may bend to the right use both of matter and manner; whereto our language giveth us great occasion, being indeed capable of any excellent exercising of it.
English literary criticism
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His eyes straying over the windows, his breath caught in his throat as a new burst of anger erupted in his veins.
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It has been derided by some critics as straying too far from historical fact in order to show a well-polished fiction.
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We left the depot near Streaky Bay, at a course nearly due east, and passing through alternations of brush and of open grassy plains, upon the skirts of which grew a few casuarinae; halted after a stage of eighteen miles, at an opening in the brush, where we had good grass, but no water; we were consequently obliged to watch the horses during the night, to prevent their straying.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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Her eyes kept straying over to the clock on the wall.
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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
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Angus: ctrl+tap on mouse pad (works with your thumb …) is a right click with out straying too far from the keyboard … both hands in good “asdf jkl;” typing position. apple-space to open up spotlight is one of my favourite short cuts.
My Quest For The Mac’s Keyboard Shortcut Soul | Lifehacker Australia
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We seem to be straying from the main theme of the debate.
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The weather in Santa Teresa has been straying from the norm of late.
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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.
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He was asked how such a patriot could stop his mind straying to thoughts of managing the national side.
Times, Sunday Times
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The situation is so bad that artistes are now straying to greener pastures.
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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
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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
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The prospect of Peter Alliss straying off piste is increasingly welcome in the post Ross-Brand sanitised BBC.
Peter Alliss: the pork pie of golf commentators | Martin Kelner
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Straying further, my eye was attracted by the sight of some heartsease that peeped through the rocks.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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The forward tried to rectify matters by turning and drilling the ball over the line, but by then the flag had been raised, penalising him for straying offside.
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He was asked how such a patriot could stop his mind straying to thoughts of managing the national side.
Times, Sunday Times
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My mind kept straying from the discussion.
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Okay, so the van was wider than I was used to, which did involve hitting the kerb again going through Stickford, but straying onto the oncoming lane a little was okay as people tended to get out my way rather sharpish.
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A couple of isolated scenes reach emotional peaks, straying dangerously into melodrama.
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Therapist Frank Pittman believes virtually all cheaters deeply regret straying.
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Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps.
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A welded grating prevents anyone from straying deeper into the adjoining caves.
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But, God was stronger than their weakness and continued to bring the straying sheep back to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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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.
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Most of those who fall into this type, straying from the type they began with, are misled by the appearance of grandeur and cannot perceive the tumidity of the style. from the Rhetorica ad Herennium. jeff vandermeer says:
Grokking the Subaqueous Consigliere John Clute
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Don't pay this too much heed unless there are other signs her attention is straying away from you.
The Sun
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Men, it seems, are less inclined to snoop on their spouses, with just a quarter admitting that they would check emails and around a third text messages to catch out straying partners.
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Tracks like "Abyss of sorrow" and "Straying in the brumal ashes" reveal the dark taste of the composer, while his music perfectly express these feelings of fear.
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In the Munich painting, the artist has rendered the child, eyes straying and unfocused, reaching almost blindly for the Virgin's carnation.
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‘Stephanie,’ Rayne began, eyes straying to my legs before falling on my face.
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Under domestication there would be a suspension of the previous elimination of reduced breast-bones by natural selection (Weismann's panmixia), and a diminution of the parts concerned in flying might even be favoured, as lessened powers of _continuous_ flight would prevent pigeons from straying too far, and would fit them for domestication or confinement.
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
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If he is right to challenge Herodotus on the colloquial "the wind grew fagged" or the inadequate "unpleasant end," the same bathos can be achieved by straying too far in the opposite direction, to "the wind grew enervated" or "calamitous termination," say.
On the Sublime
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Wild sex in all its variations night after night does not keep your partner from straying.
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Highway engineers also plan to put up fencing along large stretches of the bypass to stop newts, badgers and foxes from straying onto the road.
