astray

Example Sentences

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If the digging phase is where ideas are found, it is also where many people go astray.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

Then again, those New Year’s Eve revelers may have had their powers of basic detection and deductive reasoning sharpened by being led astray by AI slop.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2026

Rosalía wisely recruited the swooning Mexican American sierreña trio, Yahritza Y Su Esencia, to help her better emulate a Paquita La Del Barrio dress-down of a lover gone astray.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

But historian, writer, and quasi-optimist Jill Lepore has thoughts about where the American constitutional experiment went astray and what might be deployed in order to save it.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

He was lost, astray in a strange house where nothing and no one now stirred in him the slightest vestige of affection.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez