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stray
adjective as in abandoned, wandering
verb as in deviate, err
verb as in wander; get lost
Example Sentences
Tiebacks have historically been used for small remote extensions to existing oil and gas fields which geologically stray into currently unlicenced areas of seabed.
Cummings "strayed far from the proper role" of an adviser, she added, and tried to make "key decisions" in Johnson's place - a situation the former prime minister appeared happy with, she wrote.
I see something in its eyes, the same caged look that the neighborhood stray cats get when Ma catches them clawing up our mailbox.
To seriously consider the answers to these questions would require Penelope to do something called “going off on a tangent,” which is another way of saying “to stray from the subject at hand.”
Cars in their assigned parking spots; a stray cat, the one Michael had secretly named Tuxedo, slinking around the bushes; Mr. Mosley, the maintenance man, hefting a can of paint toward a vacant apartment.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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