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Examples of stray in a Sentence
Both of her cats were strays that she found wandering in the neighborhood.
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But her niece had been struck by a stray bullet earlier in the day, and the family was anxiously awaiting news of her condition.
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On July 1, 2006, a 9-year-old girl by the name of Sherdavia Jenkins was shot and killed by a stray bullet while playing on her stoop at her home in Liberty Square, the same neighborhood.
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Investigators believe Kennedy was struck by a stray bullet fired by one of at least two gang members shooting at each other.
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And just one month earlier, another drive-by shooting ended in the killing of another child: Deshaun Swanson, 10 years old, hit by a stray bullet while attending a memorial service with his mother.
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He was found as a stray by a nice family that took him in and kept him for a few months.
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More stray bullets hit a car driving in the area, shattering its windshield and windows, according to police.
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Kenworthy became the most famous for rescuing strays from the Sochi Olympics, but several others brought home dogs from those Games.
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Despite using any number of the play’s characters, the early stages of the film stray very far from Shakespeare’s scenes.
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Origin and Etymology of stray
First Known Use: 13th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
See Words from the same yearDefinition of stray
- eyes straying absently around the room
- strayed from the point
strayer
nounExamples of stray in a Sentence
The airplane strayed off course.
our straying son swears he's returned to the straight and narrow
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Excerpt: In this age of complex, time-consuming specialization, when drivers rarely stray for long from their corners of the sport, Foyt leaves behind a career so diverse it may never be matched.
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If the driver's gaze strays from the road for too long, the vehicle will issue a series of warnings and eventually slow the car down and stop it.
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Competitors say that is because venues so rarely stray.
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Jim Corridore, an airline analyst for CRFA Research, said the pet-shipping issue shows that United has strayed from customer service and that the CEO, Oscar Munoz, fails to see the lack of focus on passengers.
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The brainchild of Pravana hair colorist Rickey Zito, the treatment doesn't stray far from the classic approach in terms of technique.
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The government’s legal feud with the Hages began years ago when federal managers of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest said the family’s herd was straying into unauthorized areas on public land.
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Stokes’ plans don’t stray far from what visits her in sleep.
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Some artworks, however, show Charles straying into his brother’s realm of contemporary American leisure pursuits, such as a large-scale, detailed work of a circus and a smaller piece of a stunt rider.
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Origin and Etymology of stray
First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined above
See Words from the same yearExamples of stray in a Sentence
stray sightings of UFO's, none of which have been rigorously analyzed by scientists
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There could be a stray shower Tuesday, but most places will have time to dry out.
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The woman was hit in the leg by a stray bullet, Watrel said.
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More than 11,000 unwanted, abused and stray animals are dropped off each year, at a rate of about 30 a day, at the largest open-admission animal shelter in the state.
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The remaining families fed them, and soon the stray cat population swelled to 200 – twice the size of the dwindling human population.
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The solution is simple: Use a mesh strainer to wipe away the stray whites and achieve a perfect, bouncy final egg to top eggs Benedict, grain bowl, or fancy toast.
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When a student was killed by a stray bullet near a protest in February, the president swiftly promised a probe and dozens were arrested, including police officers.
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Police repeated prior warnings about not touching unexpected packages and issued new ones to be wary of any stray object left in public, especially ones with protruding wires.
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Gregory is the second Purcell Marian student to be fatally shot in recent years Kelsie Crow, a 17-year-old junior at the school, was struck by a stray bullet outside the Melrose YMCA in Walnut Hill in April 2015.
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First Known Use of stray
1589
stray Synonyms
Synonyms
aimless, arbitrary, catch-as-catch-can, desultory, erratic, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, random, scattered, slapdash;
Antonyms
methodical (also methodic), nonrandom, orderly, organized, regular, systematic, systematized;
Near Antonyms
established, fixed, regular, set, stable, steady;
arranged, managed, orchestrated, ordered, planned;
aware, conscious, deliberate, purposeful, thoughtful, willful (or wilful);
Related Words
accidental, casual, chance, chancy, contingent, fluky (also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, unconsidered, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated;
irregular, odd, sporadic, spot;
STRAY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of stray for English Language Learners
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: an animal (such as a cat or dog) that is lost or has no home
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: a person or thing that is separated from a group
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Definition of stray for English Language Learners
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: to go in a direction that is away from a group or from the place where you should be
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Definition of stray for English Language Learners
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of an animal : lost or having no home
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: separated from another or others of the same kind
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: not in or going in the proper or intended place
STRAY Defined for Kids
Definition of stray for Students
Definition of stray for Students
- The gate was left open and the cow strayed.
- We strayed from the path.
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