Example sentences for: stray

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

  • If he was once something of a cult figure in Chicago and, later, in New York City's Greenwich Village, he is no longer of much interest to any reader—except perhaps to some stray dissertation student or to some crime reporter dredging up the gruesome details surrounding his violent death.

  • Almost 80% ($390,000) of our operating budget is consumed by programs to serve stray and unwanted animals (the National Charities Information Bureau's standard is 60%);

  • Although few tourists stray from the Kathmandu-Pokhara-Chitwan focal points, it is possible to see something of the undeveloped west without walking three weeks to get there.

  • Apart from these, all his vast correspondence seems to have been destroyed, apart from a few stray items which have descended to me.

  • Still, there are always the “ `passionate few,' a stray lawyer here and there’ according to the author, who will fight on in the courtrooms and in the ivory towers, at the bar and in the barrooms, in the law journals and reviews for the good word, and they will never surrender.


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