How To Use Wayward In A Sentence
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The master feel good mind manipulator is saddened by her wayward "Jesus" and must come reining down to spread her pixie dust and re-christen the Annointed One.
Oprah Winfrey to tape Christmas special at the White House
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Steve's new mechanic mate causes ructions in the Lewis household - not least with wayward teenager Hannah.
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His wayward behaviour became part of theatrical lore.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the elder son, he said, who just could not accept the generosity and graciousness of his father in welcoming back a lost and wayward brother.
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As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
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The door was unmarked and completely blank except for a single word written in a dark red script: Wayward.
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Oak and beech trees line many of the fairways, waiting to punish wayward drives.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then in the next instant she groaned inwardly, cursing her wayward thoughts.
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The batsmen were also helped by some wayward bowling with 61 extras, including 40 wides, being conceded.
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Young yet, barely thirty-six, eminently handsome, magnificently strong, almost bursting with a splendid virility, his free trail-stride, never learned on pavements, and his black eyes, hinting of great spaces and unwearied with the close perspective of the city dwellers, drew many a curious and wayward feminine glance.
Chapter I
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His wayward behaviour became part of theatrical lore.
Times, Sunday Times
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First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter.
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Alcoholics are inclined to suppose that their waywardness is the response of a sensitive soul to the imperfections of the world, and by their biliousness, turning their own small corner of it into a hell for others.
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The Dominican merengue, which has a distinct left-right, left-right step, is almost a march with wayward hips.
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Gregory's bass guitar was out of tune because of a wayward string and none of the group had guitar tuners.
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Nevertheless, Mike was right, the wayward server had righted itself.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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I loke to the vayle, my spouse I see; now rynneth she awayward, now cummyth she narre, 75
Quia Amore Langueo
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This fight was Maven whaling on Danielle, her wayward behavior, her sluttiness and her partying, her desirability.
DEVILS IN EXILE
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The unexpected arrival on the scene of a suitor for his wayward daughter had therefore presented a very real threat.
ALEXANDER THE CORRECTOR
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And the sakieh raises its wailing, wayward voice and sings to the shadoof; and the shadoof sings to the sakieh; and the lifted water falls and flows away into the green wilderness of doura that, like
The Spell of Egypt
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And Isaac Davis, and John Young, and others of their waywardly adventurous ilk, with six-pounder brass carronades from the captured Iphigenia and Fair American, had destroyed the war canoes and shattered the morale of the King of Lakanaii's land - fighters, receiving duly in return from Kamehameha, according to agreement: Isaac Davis, six hundred mature and fat hogs; John
Shin-Bones
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Suddenly, the wayward twin brother of the dead cleric strides in.
The Sun
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A mixture of wayward finishing and last-gasp defending ensured the game remained goalless at the final whistle.
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However, in 1998, I changed my wayward behaviour and, within a few months, closed all but one account.
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Nor did Mayákin understand as he labored holily with his wayward godson.
Fomá Gordyéeff
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One can only surmise that it is something wayward.
Times, Sunday Times
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But now that marriage has gone out of fashion in Britain, our young men are no longer growing out of their wayward behaviour.
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Kirchner was appointed in 1727 to work on modelling porcelain for the Japanese Palace but proved wayward and was asked to leave.
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This was supposed to be a feel-good story about a mission to save a wayward cow.
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Oak and beech trees line many of the fairways, waiting to punish wayward drives.
Times, Sunday Times
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This exercise is wayward enough without making up some half-witted fake deals.
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This wayward thinking has led us down the “more is better” path of self-absorption and, for some, self-destruction.
Lighten Up
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The giant orb plopped onto the path of an oncoming ferry and bobbed around like some wayward kind of multicoloured buoy.
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The President of the United States is a supporting player in the romantic misadventures of Hillary Felicity Porter Clinton, the dweeby good guy our heroine has been ignoring for the BMOC, and the Secretary of State has nothing more pressing on her mind than wondering what pretty girl has caught her wayward boyfriend's eye and maybe how pleased she is with herself for acing that term paper for English lit.
Lance Mannion:
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He is sitting in an armchair in his bungalow being interviewed about a murder that may or may not involve his wayward son.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has also addressed a sometimes wayward reputation by going teetotal for the past five months.
Times, Sunday Times
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They told the tales in public places about the people who were in their chicherias: stories of wayward wives and cheating husbands, and stories of pilfering clerks and aborting adulteresses.
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This Damon Runyon tale of Broadway in the 1940s, has a melee of characters including gamblers, nightclub performers and Salvationists seeking to reform wayward inhabitants of Times Square in New York.
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But while they urged wayward men to dwell on their tearful, praying mothers, crusade leaders marginalized the women in their midst.
Christianity Today
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The cries of ‘Fore!’ ricocheted around the course like wayward drives bouncing between the trees that line this course at its outermost periphery.
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Driven by a huge percussion section, with weird and wayward textures, vividly descriptive melodies and a shimmer of emotion, this is music that is not only sophisticated, but also danceable.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland – review
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She points to the example of her half-brother, Mani, who went straight after a wayward youth and now runs a chauffeuring business.
Jamelia: Respect for single mothers!
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Two wayward humpback whales have done an about - face and are headed back toward the Pacific Ocean.
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This is why, far from condemning individuals for their waywardness, hard drugs policy is increasingly therapeutic - treating users as patients who need protecting from their addiction, rather than individuals who should be punished.
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He then had to deal with the increasingly wayward behaviour of his younger daughter, Joanna.
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The gifted midfielder admits his wayward behaviour could have wrecked his career.
The Sun
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Also: une mèche folle = a stray lock/wisp of hair une mèche rebelle = a wayward lock of hair une mèche lente = a safety fuse une mèche postiche = a hairpiece, toupee
Enfants
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She takes the rap for her wayward brother, going to jail for his crimes.
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Yet because you are so wayward I will help you once or twice more, and then I will leave you to your own course -- which you, in your blindness, will call your kismet, not seeing that your fate is continually in your own hands -- more so at this moment than ever before.
Mr. Isaacs
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But a wayward drive out of bounds at the 16th cost Grace a double bogey.
The Sun
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Can't possibly be Satan, you think He has time for facilitating the tiny sin of being tempted to blaspheme by the mischance of a wayward round?
Bullets Do Odd Things at Different Ranges
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There were too many wayward passes and precious little quality.
The Sun
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Recalled seamer Mohammad Sami took two for 25 after a wayward start.
Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News
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Wayward-looking tee shots were greeted with expectant murmurs of approval which turned into disappointed applause if the ball ended up on the green.
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Effortlessly sidestepping a wayward javelin, the Grand Master leapt into the fray, landing with such force that several Serpent-Men were sent sprawling backwards.
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An off-white agricultural marquee, like some wayward beached iceberg, covered an all-weather work area.
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And Isaac Davis, and John Young, and others of their waywardly adventurous ilk, with six-pounder brass carronades from the captured Iphigenia and Fair American, had destroyed the war canoes and shattered the morale of the King of Lakanaii's land-fighters, receiving duly in return from Kamehameha, according to agreement:
SHIN-BONES
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The co-founder of Apple Computer, Stephen Wozniak, recalls that it began with a series of lost dogs ‚ – a runaway husky, a roving Shar-Pei, a wayward bichon fris ‚ àö √ †.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Woz, RFIDs, Lost Dogs
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Now, he shoulders much of the blame for Daniel's wayward behaviour.
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But this farmer is a kindly old man that loves his wayward piglet since his wife died in a thresher accident.
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It hushes the infant to its slumbers in the cradle with a song whose theme is the babe of Bethlehem; it allures the child to virtue by the example of Josiah, Timothy, and Samuel; it warns the wayward youth, and reproves the erring man, and calls the hoary sinner to repentance.
Characteristics of the Bible. A Sermon Preached before the Bible Convention of South Carolina, in the Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, September 15, 1862
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A calmer, level-headed dog is just right for a small dairy herd (as long as he has the spunk or training to nip wayward cows).
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For twenty-five cents I have seen a man at the circus do something more wonderful, -- make a very living bay horse dance a redowa round the amphitheatre on his (it occurs to me that _hind-legs_ is indelicate) posterior extremities to the wayward music of an out-of-town (_Scotice_, out-o'-toon) band.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860
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He has also addressed a sometimes wayward reputation by going teetotal for the past five months.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've gotten used to blaming parents for the waywardness of their children, when we don't blame the children themselves.
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A lack of monitoring means misdemeanours go largely unreported, but already many British security firms, who traditionally enjoy the best reputation, have expressed worries about some of their colleagues' waywardness.
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Carmichael's the usual handsome dud one expects in these kind of romances, but at least there's a great scene where, after discovering that Mary is actually one of the "harpies" of San Francisco who lures men to give up their gold, the two wayward lovers engage in some spiteful, sharp-tongued repartee across a roulette table.
Barbary Coast
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Worked hard too but passing was wayward.
The Sun
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Both are notable more for their wayward behaviour in Hollywood nightclubs than for their political acumen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ultimately, all they do is thicken the atmosphere of self - indulgent waywardness that has suffused the book by the time she reaches her Howard's end.
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Although Josh was able to repass Mawer for the third place he had lost while avoiding the wayward Senna, Fisher ran out of time to catch Duran for second.
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It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything.
Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011
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Is the list mainly a catalogue of wayward institutions that, depending on their own histories and practices, have given greater or lesser heed to the AAUP's remonstrances?
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I Am Legend's wayward third act, which begins with Neville cornily reciting lines from
GreenCine Daily
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Still, she did a great job of taking the media spotlight off her wayward brother, Michael.
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But a simpler explanation is that the wayward adverb in the passage is blowback from Chief Justice Roberts's habit of grammatical niggling.
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The Wallabies put the All Blacks on the back-foot from the off, however, Kurtley Beale was twice wayward off the tee as six points went abegging early on.
BBC News - Home
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He seems to have never progressed beyond the slouchy habits of a wayward teenager.
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The mysterious opening becomes increasingly agitated till an irate accelerando launches the Allegro on its wayward path.
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He collapsed last week as the pressure of looking after his wayward daughter finally took its toll.
The Sun
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Her accent is too wayward to convince, but there's a lightness to her acting that helps paper over the cracks.
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Gerry is philosophical about his legendary likeness to the wayward footy genius Bestie, which is a constant source of amusement to drinkers in Skelton.
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I flatter myself by thinking that some wayward janitor refuses to wash it off because he agrees with the sentiment.
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The highlights were thrilling interludes by "highlander" folk band Zakopower, led by charismatic singer-violinist Sebastian Karpiel-Bulecka, an energetic foil to Kennedy's wayward brilliance.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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They are reputed persons of a singular, wayward, and eccentric character.
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Fair was definitely not being at the beck and call of her wayward emotions.
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His one-under-par 70 was a gutsy performance given he was fighting against aching legs, a bad back and a wayward three wood which prompted waves of insecurity every time he pulled that club from his bag.
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A wayward - nay - shocking forehand goes miles wild as Monfils squanders two break points before Murray levels at deuce with a 210-km ripsnorter of a serve.
BBC News - Home
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There were too many wayward passes and precious little quality.
The Sun
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One in 10 is tempted to conceal her wayward tresses under a rug when it becomes frizzy, dry, dull or takes on a life of its own.
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He confessed that he had been fed up with the wayward habits of his elder brother and that was the reason he killed him.
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I liked it better when it was a home for wayward boys and girls!
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She it was, nimble-fingered and observant and idiomatic of imagination, who held together a sometimes wayward consort.
Times, Sunday Times
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Later he was even prepared to rule that wayward parents should be sent on special parenting courses to teach them how to behave better.
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The widespread use of overdubbing and the preponderance of drum tracks with herky-jerky tempos and wayward rhythms has become a prominent style in pop and R&B that emphasizes rhythmic agility over vocal expression.
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Those who are idle, lazy, a slacker are wayward.
Christianity Today
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Anyone who has had to manage wayward or unruly livestock will know that the easiest way to do so is with food.
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Mr. Symonds offers a pitilessly clear indictment of Hornet skipper Marc Mitscher and his air-group commander, Stanhope Ring, for their mismanagement and cover-up of their carrier's wayward principal air strike on June 4, the "Flight to Nowhere," which saw their dive-bombers and fighters venture forth fruitlessly over empty seas.
The Beginning of the End
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All the issues emerge as they try to trace the missing wayward daughter of a corrupt local politician.
Times, Sunday Times
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The top-of-the-range model has been given sports suspension and equipped with all the electronic aids to assist the wayward driver.
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The events leading to The Great Bear's wayward sojourn are both lamentable and somewhat tragically amusing.
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Good for flattening a wayward stomach; not good for hourglass figures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Proverbs 23: 27-28: For a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
Leave it to Just to stir the pot, but: « Dating Jesus
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An escaped, wayward child from the horticultural efforts of two previous gardeners at the bay, it smiled and waved its many palmated, seven-fingered hands at him, beckoning to him as he went by.
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Worked hard too but passing was wayward.
The Sun
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The word prodigal, from Greek , doesn’t mean “wayward”; it means “wastefully extravagant.”
God Attachment
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His shot was wayward after he ran half the length of the field completely unchallenged.
The Sun
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Like Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt, Barack Obama's election will follow what Stephen Skowronek described as "disjunctive" presidencies, those in which the presidents went so wayward, and economic conditions became so unacceptable, that the American people called for and accepted wholesale political revolution.
Dylan Loewe: Realizing the Revolution
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That gash of color became almost clown-like as it crescented upward with its wayward mirth.
Never-Fail Blake
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Beat’s outer trappings — black turtlenecks, cigarette pants, neckerchiefs, berets — is indebted less to Jack Kerouac and his wayward cohort, who slouched about in frayed flannel shirts, than to stylized interpretations in movies like “Funny Face” or the less well-known “Subterraneans,’’ a 1960 film based on a Kerouac novel about the kinky denizens of North Beach in San Francisco.
August 2006
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Some minor, wayward part of my subconscious would appear to be suggesting a last hurrah.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chris is one of the story's truly good-natured personalities even though he submits to the fleshly desires of the wayward physician Diane.
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It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything.
Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011
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A wayward wang is not grounds for resignation or impeachment.
Sanford returns to SC as Republicans mull his fate
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‘Parents say the child is stubborn, wilful and try to put down his waywardness to other things,’ she says.
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The wayward child is at the back of the dim cement room, crouched in a corner near the hand basins.
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Eric's ego was bruised when the crowd jeered a wayward shot and he tore off his shirt in disgust.
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Australia closed down the defending champions in the dying moments of the first quarter despite some wayward shooting.
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Property de choix for Grace Kelly, Jackie Kennedy, Anna Wintour and J-Lo, I was confident that my potentially wayward but well dressed brood would be tolerated
Amy Tara Koch: Parenting By Way of Paris: One Mom's Journey From Poop Patrol to Hotel Plaza Athenee
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The batsmen were also helped by some wayward bowling with 61 extras, including 40 wides, being conceded.
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Quietly efficient, but passing wayward at times.
The Sun
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Cmdre, it looks like the wayward comment was attached to another thread.
Why a two-tiered NATO may not be such a bad thing
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As the younger became more wilful and wayward, making the most of her privileged status, the elder became more withdrawn, worried about her destiny.
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It contains avocado oil as well as proteins and is capable of transforming any wayward barnet.
The Sun
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Happily, this wayward and pettish, I will not call it disloyal spirit, has passed away, and most of the "Annexationists" are now heartily ashamed of their conduct.
Roughing It in the Bush
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At present everything seems tending toward the relaxation of ties, toward the substitution of wayward choice for the adherence to obligation, which has its roots in the past.
II. St. Ogg’s Passes Judgment. Book VII—The Final Rescue
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By the 1980s, however, her waywardness, failing health and fading interest in contemporary music began to skew the quality of her output.
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The unexpected arrival on the scene of a suitor for his wayward daughter had therefore presented a very real threat.
ALEXANDER THE CORRECTOR
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Both are notable more for their wayward behaviour in Hollywood nightclubs than for their political acumen.
Times, Sunday Times
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It cannot compel you to remain in the congregation, forbid you from joining a competing sect, or punish you for your waywardness.
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Whether Mr. Carrollton liked "blowsy" complexions or not, he certainly admired Maggie's at that moment, and drawing her closer to his side, he said, half playfully, half earnestly: "To see you thus anxious for me, Maggie, more than atones for your waywardness when last we parted.
Maggie Miller
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The Wayward Cloud is hard going, but it is a distinctive, audacious and uncompromising piece of filmmaking.
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The case is the second this year to involve a wayward decimal point.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gatekeeper, cursing the wayward steering, was then surprised to be rebuked by the Archbishop from his position in the driving seat.
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A gaff is also good for beating off wayward locals, snakes, centipedes, scorpions, dogs etc.
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But on the flip side could be instanced fleeting moments when rhythmic control was a little wayward and when ensemble unity was not quite perfect.
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There then followed a long barren spell with Castlecomer frequently on the attack but their wayward shooting failed them at the final kick.
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'_An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth_,' so Donald Macgregor muttered to himself as he strode cautiously down the water of Coquet, halting at the many crooks of that wayward water to spy out the land as he went forward.
Border Ghost Stories
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The door was unmarked and completely blank except for a single word written in a dark red script: Wayward.
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Spacey plays a man involved with a wayward woman, a selfish, drunken slutty type.
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Individuals, not a political party, will be called to account by the courts for misdeeds committed under the auspices of his wayward pet project.
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Worse, there is also the danger that these potentially wayward missiles will misfire and kill innocent civilians.
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I flatter myself by thinking that some wayward janitor refuses to wash it off because he agrees with the sentiment.
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Eve is a feisty and resourceful heroine, and the earl and his wayward family are viewed as an intriguing mix of the blinkered and the humane.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few nifty lighting tricks later, and we're riding the rails with a host of yin-yang character pairs: the suited businessman and his wayward brother, the heartbroken sot and her vivacious new friend, and so on.
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Their normal crisp and incisive passing here was replaced by loose wayward kicks that often went straight out of play.
The Sun
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He has also addressed a sometimes wayward reputation by going teetotal for the past five months.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many believe that the law will destroy efforts to reform a wayward youth.
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All the issues emerge as they try to trace the missing wayward daughter of a corrupt local politician.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suddenly, the wayward twin brother of the dead cleric strides in.
The Sun
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Walters lacerates herself for three failed marriages and a wayward adopted daughter.
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler: Dum Dum Bullets Swaddled in Angora
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Schaefer samples and composes sounds with the physical waywardness of an assemblage sculptor, disorientating and reorientating sounds, and adding audio surprises.
The Guardian World News
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In sustaining rhythmic tension without compromise or wayward rubatos, Mr Rose takes advantage of those larger intervals to effectively punctuate the music's rhythmic profile.
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One can only surmise that it is something wayward.
Times, Sunday Times
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He drinks in his mess, is coarsely sarcastic at home, neglects his worn-down wife, and evidently rules his wayward children harshly.
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A wayward camera does not help student wizards to catapult malevolent plants at poisonous mushrooms or send explosive cauldrons flying into barriers.
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He has also addressed a sometimes wayward reputation by going teetotal for the past five months.
Times, Sunday Times
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One was below a picture of Saint Maria Goretti, the patroness of young women and wayward teens.
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They may recall her unwearied patience with the very dullest and most wayward of them; her unfailing sympathy with every infantile pleasure and pain.
Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
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The Klan, it seemed, still had an ill-deserved reputation for chivalry in some circles left over from the period in the 1920s when it would horsewhip wayward husbands.
Leonard Zeskind: Haley Barbour Has No Excuse
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Many religious texts legitimise keeping wayward women under control through the use of physical violence.
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The gifted midfielder admits his wayward behaviour could have wrecked his career.
The Sun
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Short fringe at the front, a few wayward tresses flapping at the side and long mane at the back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wayward sightseers who stay out late to sample one of the sociable local hostelries are greeted by three brick-built seamen as they set foot on the far end of the gangplank.
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Anyone who has had to manage wayward or unruly livestock will know that the easiest way to do so is with food.
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Under the veneer of small town pieties lay a self-made mind, capable of a willfulness and a waywardness Rachel hoped she had inherited.
GALILEE
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Their normal crisp and incisive passing here was replaced by loose wayward kicks that often went straight out of play.
The Sun
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Three out of four New Zealanders want judges given the power to start cracking down on the parents of wayward children.
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First there is the murder of one of the police deputies and then, even more alarmingly, the arrival of her willful and wayward daughter.
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He collapsed last week as the pressure of looking after his wayward daughter finally took its toll.
The Sun
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“Some hilding fellow, that had stolen the horse he rode on,” with hilding meaning “bent downward, twisted waywardly aside.”
No Uncertain Terms
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The beast subsisted on a diet of swamp things, but was known to occasionally snack on wayward lumberjacks and other unfortunates.
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Quietly efficient, but passing wayward at times.
The Sun
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His shoulder length sandy blonde hair was tied back as to not obscure his suntanned face, but a few wayward strands had escaped and trailed along his stubbled cheek.
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As described spot-on by Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian newspaper, "In France, genocide has become a political brickbat," Jan. 18: ... a tragedy which should be the subject for grave commemoration and free historical debate, calmly testing even wayward hypotheses against the evidence, is reduced to an instrument of political manipulation, a politician's brickbat.
Yavuz Baydar: Paris's Folly
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Though his ship remains anchored permanently, he believes his duty as captain of the lightship is a sacred one: to guide wayward vessels, even provide aid and respite if need be.
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He has also addressed a sometimes wayward reputation by going teetotal for the past five months.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both are notable more for their wayward behaviour in Hollywood nightclubs than for their political acumen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Land transport federation of Thailand head Apichart Prairungreung said the truck drivers were sincere in their demands for justice, accusing some wayward police of overissuing traffic tickets in order to get a 7075 per cent commission.
NationMultimedia.com - Topstories
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Neither of the two young batsmen thought to be top of the queue eventually to replace the aging Australian top order, were able to make a compelling case for early inclusion with Bresnan, occasionally wayward, turning Callum Ferguson inside out, and Shahzad snaring Usman Khawaja, offering him an unendearing send-off in the process.
Ashes 2010: England's back-up bowlers state claims against Australia A
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A fabulous young woman leading a project for wayward pupils explained how difficult it was for boys in her community.
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Teachers should also take a lead in helping correct the misconception of the now wayward pupils.
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That this war is not a war against the Muslims and as proof we even save the Muslims in Bosnia from the hands of some wayward Orthodox.
Evening Buzz: Battle for Afghanistan – What’s Next?
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His trance-like universe of moral relativism was disturbed when he met a group of his coreligionists who promised him answers and certainties, if only he renounced his wayward path and became a true believer.
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Pinning up her wayward curls, Lissa made a face in the steam-coated bathroom mirror.
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His trance-like universe of moral relativism was disturbed when he met a group of his coreligionists who promised him answers and certainties, if only he renounced his wayward path and became a true believer.
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We had won disregard of all the bother and contradictions, the vanities and absurdities of the toilful, wayward, human world, and had acquired a glorious sense of irresponsibleness and independence.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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And then like many before them they paid the penalty for their own waywardness.
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Much in the manner of a wayward tweenager who has been grounded from going out and is secretly Tweeting and Facebooking their mates every five minutes and chuckling to themselves about how clever they are.
Britney Spears Being Sectioned
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He is sitting in an armchair in his bungalow being interviewed about a murder that may or may not involve his wayward son.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wayward performances and an ambivalent attitude towards his score markings must be challenged.
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Your wayward attitude and ill-conceived policies have done great harm to this country.
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In Egypt your Nubian sailor prays in the stern of your dahabiyeh; and your Egyptian boatman prays by the rudder of your boat; and your black donkey-boy prays behind a red rock in the sand; and your camel-man prays when you are resting in the noontide, watching the far-off quivering mirage, lost in some wayward dream.
The Spell of Egypt
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After a slightly wayward tee shot which lands on the edge of the trees, Woods takes no chances, dinking the ball out on to the fairway for a chip over the water to the green.
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The shamans believe this was caused by a wayward spirit who reneged on their deal.
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His threat, seen as a ploy to call wayward allies to heel, prompted a rousing statement of support yesterday.
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Although this new album is not brimming with obvious singles, the balance between orchestral atmospherics, electronic waywardness and song structure has been well struck.
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His shot was wayward after he ran half the length of the field completely unchallenged.
The Sun
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A wayward droplet of water streamed down his already soaked arm.
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Nevertheless, the wayward bishop, after shamelessly parading his furciferous behaviour in front of the big cheese, comes away with this impression:
Diocese of Niagara: Michael Bird justifies his behaviour to Rowan Williams « Anglican Samizdat
