Strayed can be categorized as a verb.
Adjective |
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| strayed - Who has lost his way. | ||
Verb |
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| stray - wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" | ||
| stray - move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" | ||
| stray - lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" |
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| 1. | verb | A lost dog strayed into our neighborhood yesterday. | |
| 2. | verb | He strayed from his group. | |
| 3. | verb | But the young ones did not listen to their mother, and, playing about the garden one day, they strayed close up to the castle windows. | |
| 4. | verb | Neither of us has strayed. | |
| 5. | verb | Daphnis frequently collected such of the sheep as had strayed, and if a goat ventured too near a precipice Chloe drove it back. | |
| 6. | verb | Stop! You strayed! | |
| 7. | verb | Sami strayed from the righteous path. | |
| 8. | verb | His ships he hides within a sheltering cove, / screened by the caverned rock, and shadowed by the grove, / then wielding in his hand two broad-tipt spears, / alone with brave Achates forth he strayed. | |
| 9. | verb | Then homeward turn, if haply in her flight, / if, haply, thither she had strayed; but ere / I came, behold, the Danaans, loud in fight, / swarmed through the halls. | |
| 10. | verb | I felt I had suddenly strayed into another world. | |
| 11. | verb | In a self-built hide, situated in a secluded part of the woods far from any road or path, a place into which people had hardly ever strayed, Tom and John would often meet to watch the animals and put the world to rights. | |
| 12. | verb | Kateb Yacine is our idol because he is one of the few, on the other side of the wall, to have claimed his full and entire millennial Algerian identity. Others have strayed into an untraceable Arabness that they confuse with Islam, which is itself multiple. His entire work and his masterpiece Nedjma are there to remind us. | |
| 13. | verb | The old farmer takes potshots at people who stray too close to his property. | |
| 14. | verb | The old farmer takes potshots at people who stray too close to his property. | |
| 15. | adj. | A stray calf. | |
| 16. | adj. | A stray dog. | |
| 17. | adj. | A few stray crumbs. |
| Sentence | |
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| verb | |
| A lost dog strayed into our neighborhood yesterday. | |
| He strayed from his group. | |
| But the young ones did not listen to their mother, and, playing about the garden one day, they strayed close up to the castle windows. | |
| Neither of us has strayed. | |
| Daphnis frequently collected such of the sheep as had strayed, and if a goat ventured too near a precipice Chloe drove it back. | |
| Stop! You strayed! | |
| Sami strayed from the righteous path. | |
| His ships he hides within a sheltering cove, / screened by the caverned rock, and shadowed by the grove, / then wielding in his hand two broad-tipt spears, / alone with brave Achates forth he strayed. | |
| Then homeward turn, if haply in her flight, / if, haply, thither she had strayed; but ere / I came, behold, the Danaans, loud in fight, / swarmed through the halls. | |
| I felt I had suddenly strayed into another world. | |
| In a self-built hide, situated in a secluded part of the woods far from any road or path, a place into which people had hardly ever strayed, Tom and John would often meet to watch the animals and put the world to rights. | |
| Kateb Yacine is our idol because he is one of the few, on the other side of the wall, to have claimed his full and entire millennial Algerian identity. Others have strayed into an untraceable Arabness that they confuse with Islam, which is itself multiple. His entire work and his masterpiece Nedjma are there to remind us. | |
| The old farmer takes potshots at people who stray too close to his property. | |
| The old farmer takes potshots at people who stray too close to his property. | |
| adj. | |
| A stray calf. |
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| A stray dog. |
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| A few stray crumbs. |
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