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Example sentences for: astray

How can you use “astray” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

These examples of onomatoplazia are a personal set, words that have led me astray.
For example, this is her interpretation of one of Barbey's religious monsters (the seductor and rapist of an innocent country girl in A Nameless Story ): The name Riculf seems to be a clever composite of two French words: rire, meaning to laugh, comes directly from the Latin rictus meaning a mocking sneering laughter; and culer meaning to back away or go astray.
Yet ABC, like all the networks, is quick to pounce when the lifestyles of the rich and famous, including politicians, go astray.
Those using the term in its sociological sense, however, often go astray.
But in the hubbub about the marketing of The Blair Witch Project , which has been tremendous, it's important to keep in mind that there really is no simple formula by which hits happen, and that attempts to reduce popular success to that kind of formula are bound to lead you astray.