Synonym: drift, gad, meander, ramble, roam, rove, straggle, wander. Similar words: tray, portray, betrayal, strain, distract, abstract, strategy, constrain. Meaning: [streɪ] n. homeless cat. v. 1. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment 2. wander from a direct course or at random 3. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking. adj. not close together in time.
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121, She dealt with a stray wisp of grey hair and pushed her hairpins firmly into place.
122, Gardeners regularly stroll the grounds, picking up stray pieces of trash and trimming unruly bushes.
123, A stray mongrel appeared at the end of the alley, its body gaunt from years of neglect.
124, Beneath the stage a stray ginger cat climbs on huge pieces of outdated production machinery from before the second world war.
125, The grouping formalised the situation by creating four essentially geographically based companies, even though they did stray into one another's territories.
126, Emily shook back a stray curl of hair and held herself upright, she must stop feeling sorry for herself.
127, But when you talk I stray back to your ankles in a fantasy of exploring there with my tongue.
128, He was wounded by a stray bullet.
129, Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion.
130, Don't stray too far from the correct path.
131, Please don't stray from the subject.
132, A stray dog came up to him.
133, If the animals stray onto private land, the landowner may require the government to retrieve them.
134, The measurement of alternating potential difference may be perturbed by stray current.
135, But it seems to me that quite often supplementary information in blog comments stray away from the writer's key objective.
136, With examples this paper analyses the phenomenon of ferro—resonance caused by the grading capacitor and the effect of busbar's stray capacitance on ferroresonance.
137, The cat loved himself very much. Since he was a great tiger-striped cat. He became a great stray cat.
138, The piece responds to the marginalized feminine art form as well as justifies the artist's artistic standpoint and state of working that very much stray away from the mainstream context.
139, The direction and value of horizontal stray field induced by the toroidal field coils and primary windings are determined using vertical displacement data.
140, Nick's mom has turned her home into a halfway house for down-and-out relatives and stray dogs.
141, Every stray dog has to be taken by its finder to the police.
142, The system can overcome the influence by water mineralization degree and stray capacitance effectively[sentencedict.com],(http://sentencedict.com/stray.html) so the accuracy of the measurement of crude oil moisture is very high.
143, The streets were empty except for a few stray taxis.
144, Stray mines began to turn up off the Pacific coast, imperilling commercial shipping.
145, My reception was always the same: cheering crowds, squealing children and happy stray dogs.
146, He's a crusty old gentleman who feeds stray dogs and cats.
147, Many shelters will rent out traps, or the area may have a by-law enforcement agency that catches stray animals when they are reported as such.
148, Last year he played Lorenzo, a stray, wandering man with no purposes, in the De Laurentiis production of "The Decameron ".
149, The explosives in Challenger's self - destruct system might have been set off by a stray radio signal.
150, Her conclusion: people in rich countries value monogamy and tend not to stray often.
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