Straying can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| straying - unable to find your way; "found the straying sheep" | ||
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" |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | adj. | Found the straying sheep. | |
| 2. | adj. | A stray calf. | |
| 3. | adj. | A stray dog. | |
| 4. | adj. | A few stray crumbs. | |
| 5. | adj. | He is, as it were, a stray sheep. | |
| 6. | adj. | The stray girl sobbed her name. | |
| 7. | adj. | Stray dogs tramped about my garden. | |
| 8. | adj. | The stray dog suddenly came at the child. | |
| 9. | adj. | Tom came close to being killed by a stray arrow. | |
| 10. | adj. | Tom was killed by a stray bullet. | |
| 11. | adj. | I hope you get shot by a stray bullet. | |
| 12. | adj. | Have you been bitten by a stray dog? | |
| 13. | adj. | We found the stray dog and decided to keep it. | |
| 14. | adj. | Stray bullets flew everywhere during the war. | |
| 15. | adj. | Tom was attacked by a stray dog. | |
| 16. | verb | The old farmer takes potshots at people who stray too close to his property. |
| Sentence | |
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| adj. | |
| Found the straying sheep. |
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| A stray calf. |
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| A stray dog. |
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| A few stray crumbs. |
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| He is, as it were, a stray sheep. | |
| The stray girl sobbed her name. | |
| Stray dogs tramped about my garden. | |
| The stray dog suddenly came at the child. | |
| Tom came close to being killed by a stray arrow. | |
| Tom was killed by a stray bullet. | |
| I hope you get shot by a stray bullet. | |
| Have you been bitten by a stray dog? | |
| We found the stray dog and decided to keep it. | |
| Stray bullets flew everywhere during the war. | |
| Tom was attacked by a stray dog. | |
| verb | |
| The old farmer takes potshots at people who stray too close to his property. | |