Example sentences for: astray

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

  • Yet ABC, like all the networks, is quick to pounce when the lifestyles of the rich and famous, including politicians, go astray.

  • But I also have to acknowledge that my isolation could be leading me very 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.

  • These examples of onomatoplazia are a personal set, words that have led me astray.

  • His persona was just such a type: mocking God, leading others astray, scornfully getting away. (p. 219.)


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