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Sentence Examples The two low magnetic field electric motors feature compensated stray fields and are each rated at 125kW for minehunting. He quickly pushed that thought away, and brushed some stray locks of hair from her face. Being human, we will sometimes mess up and stray from our self-imposed task. He opens his big mouth, sucks the stray fish or shrimp in, and snaps the trap shut. One of them, who saw a stray dog being beaten to near-death, was so anguished that he has vowed never to come back here again. Unavoidably, given the author's identity, large stretches of My Stroke of Luck stray into predictable showbiz memoir territory. Animal shelters provide a valuable service to the community that they serve by keeping the streets as free of stray animals as possible. Still, it pains me that birds hit my house and that they risk encounters with my husband's bird dog and my daughter's cat, a rescued stray. Lily the mongrel puppy was one of the first pooches to go online to promote a stray dogs website in North Yorkshire. He lies in the nest for tonight, taken from a stray mutt and her mongrel puppies. There may well be a few cases where teachers and others, from the best of motives, stray into absurdity. That is also when the omnipresent stray dogs are more interested in their siesta than in chasing hapless wayfarers. Anderson said the dog was a stray, and was not adoptable because of its aggressiveness. They went ahead when Tom Copeland fielded a stray opposition kick just on half way. His entire body swivels around and he advances menacingly like a stray dog snarling over a piece of meat. Naples itself is best left to the Neapolitans, to the stray dogs that haunt its blighted squares and to the pent-up wrath of Vesuvius. In my mind's eye, this was a sign that maybe I would be tempted to stray, and thus not worthy enough to get married. Here he plays Dodge, a slow-witted dog handler enlisted by Kramden to train his stray greyhound. For one thing, the Yemeni might be reluctant to see the investigation stray into uncomfortable areas. Miranda rarely left the front door on the latch and if she did she wouldn't stray far. Show More Sentences I told my daughter that I was willing to donate up to 5,000 pounds to anyone who would set up a rescue home for the stray dogs here. I leant over and pushed a few stray hairs off her forehead and kissed her gently. A stray cat scampered across the alley, not sparing a glance at the girl who was wading through an ankle-deep swamp of old newspaper. Public rights of way would be unaffected but ramblers would not be able to stray from paths. A Hyndburn stray dogs charity has made a heartfelt appeal for help with a homeless pooch who broke his leg after being knocked down. He flicked a stray pebble with his toe into the water, the ripples expanding as far as the jetty. A passing picture, a stray word, a fugitive thought caught up by them sets in motion a long train of dreamy, unfashioned, unfinished thoughts. Little Nicky may be an exact copy of his DNA-donor, but Gordie was a stray for a couple of years and roughed it. The village was run over with stray cats, tabbies, longhairs, shorthairs, tomcats, and all other imaginable breeds, even the Casper Cat. The piece of green grass near the bowling greens on Clarence Gardens is part of Bootham stray and has been enclosed for a long time. The Swindon Branch operates a lost and found register to assist those who are concerned about a stray or whose cat has disappeared. Trim up overhanging foliage from surrounding plants and simultaneously cut back any stray grass runners before they take root in adjacent beds. It's like having an extended asynchronous conversation and being able to save what were once stray thoughts. The double doors to his room had opened slightly, allowing a stray beam of light to stream into the dark room. I have an adopted stray semi-psycho cat, and she has twice lived with other cats, and that has only made her more skittery. Most of the machine gun fire blew past him and only a few stray shots managed to hit him. Here were the hagglers and talebearers, the scrapmongers, the dealers in stray talk. This will go towards looking after abused, sick and stray animals in the sanctuary in Lisacul. In addition all the electric motors are of low magnetic material content and have compensated stray fields. As difficult as it is to stray from the safety of pork dumplings, try the satay. Show More Sentences The stray dogs may be hungrier, but I don't think they ever ate that bad rice. Slowly, he raised his hand to brush a few stray tendrils of hair from her face. And every time I am at Toronto's main railway or bus terminals I have an eye out for stray packages. You're either shivering in parks trying to soak up a stray ray of sun or huddling on a terrasse inhaling the hot fumes of a cafe au lait. Watch out for stray ballista bolts, javelins etc, and avoid all the experimental kilns as they tend to explode. Joe followed the fence line, watching for stray cattle, and any rifts in the taut rows of barb wire. The ambulance wailing, the children screeching, and the stray dogs barking on Underwood Avenue on a rainy day. These needles are so small she has to handle them with tweezers and can locate stray ones only with a powerful magnet. The only beings which do expect him and greet him with unbridled joy are the stray dogs. Lost in a crowded WH Smiths, I collar a stray assistant and ask her where I can find some batteries. One stray shell turns up, a year after destruction of the regime. Where did it come from? The charity urges owners to be responsible in helping to prevent the stray dog problem, by neutering and microchipping their dogs. There was a slight breeze in the air that tousled Lena's hair, stray tendrils from her ponytail framing her face. In the city, there has been any number of instances of stray dogs attacking morning strollers or passing two-wheelers, causing accidents in the process. Feral cats are the offspring of stray or abandoned household pets. Take care around the traditional bonfires as even a stray spark shooting from damp or knotted wood can ignite materials in multicoloured costumes. He played little before this season but is the type of player who can scrape up several extra possessions by diving for loose balls and picking up stray rebounds. Three stray dogs saunter out of our way as we turn into a residential area lined with trailers and graffiti-sprayed stop signs. Use a windbreak to protect unclad limbs from chronic goosepimpling and to stake out your territory so that other families don't stray too close. The shooting Ice Cube was referring to was the accidental killing of Karen Toshima by a stray bullet. Show More Sentences Enigma was going well by this stage, but intelligence realised there must be another system when a stray teleprinter message was picked up by a listening post in Kent. But neither they nor he wanted to stray too far from the collection of small-scale bungalows, shacks, and cabins that make up this mountain town's built context. He suffered severe head trauma when a stray board, whose owner was not wearing a leg rope, smashed into the back of his head fracturing his skull. When powerful men stray, the press continues to ogle, and shame, the women they do it with, writes Allison Yarrow. I have to tread carefully, because certain persons who might claim to have been there too are liable to be up in arms the moment I stray more than an inch from the truth. Soon after it was licensed and introduced in the US, stray cases of polio were observed within the incubation period of its administration to children. The shovel's blade carved a little trail in the snow and he tried to step only in that trail, not sure why it mattered but anxious not to stray outside the parallel lines. Equipped with low level perch seats to discourage beggars and stray animals from cuddling down, the shelters employ modular construction for fast assembling. Before she could be felled or winged by any stray shots, he crept forward to grab her arm and pull her to safety. On the weekends the birds and stray cats keep the artists company as they set up their displays. They decide to adopt a stray cat, paw paw, in the hopes that it will fill the void in their relationship. They then tattoo the inside of the ear of animals that they spay and neuter so that they do not try to operate more than once on the same stray animal. In the past, the band's predilection for exotic instrumentation would sometimes result in stray accordions or sleigh bells getting completely buried in an amorphous mash. As night falls, the soldiers here use high-tech thermal imaging cameras, cameras so sophisticated, they can see a rat in the rubble, a stray cat, a man sweeping the floor. The mom wasn't too friendly to strangers, since she was a stray. They seldom stray too far from their appointed positions in the structure. While some stray from the fold, most stay with the same pack their entire lives. We are reminded that boys are conditioned from an early age to be adventurous and take risks, while girls are taught to be cautious and not stray too far. She heard the late birds chirp, the crickets whistle, the stray dogs howl. Mr Timm added that followers were permitted to meet the hunt wherever they came from, as long as they kept to the roads and did not stray on to the surrounding fields. Show More Sentences Her hair was windswept, the stray strands gently framing her rosy face. Acclaim for the film of Sir Hector's last expedition was gradually wheedling stray young men like sated woodworms, into the light of potential dangers. To make a long story short, Lowtax and Fragmaster manage to survive the night, after a few frights caused by a stray cat and a hilarious concoction of paranoia and tequila. On the Bowling Green near Manhattan's southern tip, for instance, stood a vacant pedestal enclosed by an iron fence around which stray pigs often rooted. We'd heard theories ranging from stray artillery fire, to demolitions detonated far beneath the city streets. With a kid, there are always so many little GI Joe army boots and stray Lego pieces and art projects lying around, it's a tough row to hoe to keep things tidy. I bit my trembling lip and twisted a stray lock of coppery hair around my finger as my mind frantically scrabbled for some way out of the problem at hand. The crew chattered as they helped themselves to the supplies, covering the floor of the bridge with empty wrappers and stray crumbs of food in moments. Thanks to the support of the public we are able to care for 11,500 stray and abandoned dogs through our network of 15 rehoming centres around the country. The most terrifying thing I encounter during my visit is a fat, white Himalayan stray cat with red eyes and a scrunched up face. Play grinds to a halt when a stray dog lollops across the pitch. The Dead Dog was back, only this one barked and yapped for an hour as it tried and failed to make the cunning old bull make a mistake and stray into the stunning pen. She narrowed her eyes, bit her lip as if to chew over the question, and whisked some stray blond hairs away from her face. Bahrain resident Alise Lappo said she was devastated after finding an injured stray cat in Juffair but was unable to contact an emergency vet. Instead, he said four stray fastballs to Yankees centrefielder Brett Gardner defined his night. I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history. In the celebrations that followed the treaty, Henry was killed by a stray splinter from a lance. A stray kaffir dog, his skeleton showing clear through tight skin, lay in the pit of blue shade outside the veranda. Department of Agriculture inspectors look for horses and livestock that stray across the border carrying ticks. A portion of a returning salmon run may stray and spawn in different freshwater systems. Show More Sentences In Croatia, wolves kill more dogs than sheep, and wolves in Russia appear to limit stray dog populations. As historians began to stray from the strict retelling of these stories, piracy became more significant. Currently, the only approved method of decreasing the stray dog population is shooting by police officers. His men survived on a diet of pine bark, stolen food, stray forest animals and native captives whom they cannibalized. In another the Mets were shellacked, 9-1, with a stray ninth-inning home run by Strawberry after two outs, preventing a shutout. Ships line up on the buoys to insure they do not stray from the shipping lane. The military said it fired the missile as a warning shot after a stray mortar from Syria hit a military post in the Golan Heights. Bridegroom Matt Murrell, 42, a former Royal Marine, built a close bond with the stray German Shepherd in the warzone of Iraq. A RESCUE dog that mauled a four-year-old girl to death was a stray picked up by the local authorities in a park months earlier. A RESCUE dog that mauled a fouryear-old girl to death was a stray picked up by the local authorities in a park months earlier. The amphipods' secret may be to check for trout chemical signs in backflows, little stray currents that do not follow the main flow of a stream. More than half of partners tend to stray before they reach the seven-year itch, according the survey by maritalaffair. Spay Day is an annual campaign to inspire people to save animal lives by spaying or neutering pets and stray animals. A stray mule skinner leading his pony on foot joined them as they started at a brisk walk toward the wagon boxes. Too much booze, pressure from friends as well as a sense of losing your freedom can drive many future husbands to stray on their stag nights. Although money is kept in a strongroom, the front of the building has just a glass door with no lock, to avert stray dogs. If players stray too far from the mark, they can earn such achievements as stumblebum, klutz or spazoid. So the woods are silent, still, and deserted, save by a stray rabbit among the thistles, and the grasshoppers ceaselessly leaping in the grass. Blackburn teenager Preston took only three minutes to open the scoring, pouncing on a stray passback to drive the ball home. The centre also conducts animal desexing for free as part of the its vision to reduce the number of stray animals in the emirate. Show More Sentences The one from Aseri was excavated from a prehistoric stone-grave and was deposited as a grave good or lost as a stray find. The album's music was premiered at last year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival and it also features stray global elements, aspects of Indonesian gamelan and Malian kora music. The tonsuring of heads seemed smooth, barring stray incidents of a handful of pilgrim-turned-barbers trying to make that extra buck by offering their services. A total of eight mouflons, four fallow deer, and one doe have been torn to pieces by several stray dogs, the Director of the Sofia Zoo, Ivan Ivanov, announced. The situation has prompted residents to consider killing stray dogs for fear that they might pounce on cadaver bags and expose unidentified bodies, sources said. In 2010, a study of 74 Italian wolf male lineages found that 5 of them originated from dog ancestry, indicating that female wolves will breed with stray male dogs in the wild. Then, as if to contradict me, a stray sunbeam found the spot and sent curious bright glintings of sheen and shadow dancing and playing under the fallen roots and trunk. It's an offbeat and refreshing beer, and some clovey German yeast character accents the flavor, so it doesn't quite stray into malternative territory. Twilight star Kellan Lutz, currently filming a movie in Bulgaria, has released an exclusive video in support of fund-raising for an NGO that is taking care of stray dogs. Bev Peascod, of Carlisle, fell in love with stray dog Sylvie in Greece. An elegant Arctic fox makes a non-too delicate meal out of a guillemot that's mis-timed its landing and a leopard seal makes mincemeat of a stray penguin. For instance. when a cell phone is found. proper forensic protocol may call for it to be placed in a Faraday bag, which prevents stray signals from going in or out. In 1972 he became chairman of Animal Rescue Cumbria, and donated enough money to enable the foundation in 1984 of Kapellan, a shelter for stray cats and dogs in Kendal. Against the background of the systematic efforts undertaken by the then human resource ministry to communalize education, these stray events sounded all the more sinister. The eyebrows are tweezed to get rid of any last remaining stray hairs. This could be a stray ship from the mapping expedition that returned prematurely, or another expedition altogether, about which we have no information. Instead, the city's code enforcement officer is advocating for the spaying and neutering of stray and feral cats that have been abandoned in her rural community. Examples from Classical Literature They had been perfectly normal juvenile delinquents, stealing cars and bopping a stray policeman or two. They took their roll, and then began hunting for stray tufts of grass among the buffalo berry bushes. As much to me as if a stray, migratory mule had rambled into the wood and found me, and I him. Some are still in a state of inebriety, and stagger as they stray about the decks. Luke is, doubtless, the stray rook, and a fledgeling hath flown hither from a distant country. He racked his brain for a stray gleam of retrospect, but it was not forthcoming. And the gay Franconian reached up and pulled a stray tag of Boris's jerkin, which hung down his back. When he took refuge in the Vatican he must have been clinging to some waif and stray of hope. Once or twice a stray peasant stumbled on us, and was much surprised at our encampment in so droughty a locality. The latter was defeated at seta in Ise, and killed in the midst of a rice-field by a stray arrow. Sketches were structureless, as any aureola formed by stray sunlight grazing the moon might naturally be. Miss Pierson, I deputize you to gather up the stray sunbeams for me that memory may have a regal crown to wear when I am far away. It was half-full of white powder that glittered in a stray ray of sunlight. Arrived at the toll bar of St. Ninians, she was stopped by the toll keeper who supposed her to be a stray sheep. Mr. A. went on the street with a handball, and coaxed some stray idler to join him in a game. Thence they are apt to migrate or stray into the lungs and liver, where they encyst themselves. No stray, unwished-for visitor ever got to the master to rob him of his rest when he was at home. Their feathery plumes are admirably adapted for catching and utilising any stray golden grain which happens to pass that way. Now, if your ladyship will come with me, I will see you dry into the stray, and then I'll bring your honored nieces one by one. This thin but rough covering entangles stray particles, and thus by its own decay affords a nidus for a stronger growth. Show More Sentences There is always some stray silver in the bead bag of a movie patron. So neddy had to go, and pick up such stray jobs as he might. The open garbage not only invites stray dogs and pigs to hover around the garbage cans but also mosquitoes and flies. For a minute or two we were all on our knees retrieving stray cigarettes from impossible places. A stray cat that was found in the UK with a Dubai-registered microchip has had an amazing globe-trotting life it has been revealed. Free ingress had thus been afforded to two stray ponies, a goat, and a tramp, who lay asleep in the grass. But we are no good, neither you nor I. You're a wastrel and a stray. But when the perks stray from simple toward luxury levels at a time when budgets are tight, it's more than just a little irritating. My riders is wolfing in Grave City, but they'll stray back 'fore noon. Member of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan Mamytbai Salymbekov has urged to shoot off stray dogs. It did not take Michael long to learn this, and stray dogs got short shrift from him. I singled out a stray Junker 88 bomber for attack and closed to within 80 yards before opening fire with the eight Browning machine guns. Then, when the anemones went, came a few stray periwinkles and Solomon's Seal, and all the birdcherries blossomed in a burst. Everything was wet except Maud, and she, in oilskins, rubber boots, and sou'wester, was dry, all but her face and hands and a stray wisp of hair. He did not propose to have his plans spoiled by these stray guests. But the spare room was out of the question for such a stray waif, so there remained only the east gable room. My last dog, Lucy, who sadly has now passed away, used to play with another stray tom cat that I owned briefly. A heavily pregnant tortoise shell queen, who we have named Emma, came to us recently as a stray. The junkyard was a fine place in which to shelter stray dogs. She gathered together stray garments that were hanging on the backs of chairs, and put each where it belonged in closet or bureau drawer. Show More Sentences It is present in all his works, in stray letters and detached passages. It might be anything from a stray cow to a moonshiner on his way to work. One of the most intelligent of the Indians was put in charge of the digging gangs as foreman, and told to keep them at work, and not to let them stray. The instant he had consented to hear her her mind awakened to the serious necessity of averting discovery by any third person who might stray idly into the summer-house. The wolf-dogs, clustered on the far side of the fire, snarled and bickered among themselves, but evinced no inclination to stray off into the darkness. So long as Phoebe sang, she might stray at her own will about the house. Mulcahy groaned and buried his head in his arms till a stray shot spoke like a snipe immediately above his head, and a general heave and tremour rippled the line. All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation. He continued, therefore, to stray from hut to hut, looking into each only to encounter additional disappointment, until he had made the entire circuit of the village. He had published a pamphlet about it, and set out to organize a party of his own, when a stray Socialist leaflet had revealed to him that others had been ahead of him. Rochester such a wealth of the power of communicating happiness, that to taste but of the crumbs he scattered to stray and stranger birds like me, was to feast genially. It was late in the summer afternoon, and the doors and windows of the large parlor all stood open, to invite any stray breeze, that might feel in a good humor, to enter. Quite the prettiest sight in the Gardens is when the babies stray from the tree where the nurse is sitting and are seen feeding the birds, not a grownup near them. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of stray? Words that rhyme with stray What is the past tense of stray? What is the plural of stray? What is the adverb for stray? What is the adjective for stray? What is the noun for stray? Translations for stray Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words strawy straw vote straw that broke the camel's back straws straw poll straw man Stray strayed strayer Strayer straying strays 5-letter Words Starting With s st str stra