foray
IPA: fˈɔreɪ
noun
- A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
- A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.
verb
- To participate in a foray.
- To do or attempt something outside one's typical area of expertise.
- (transitive, archaic) To scour an area for goods as part of a foray.
Advertisement
Examples of "foray" in Sentences
- The reasons for this foray are unclear.
- Foray was the first recipient of the award.
- The comic forays into sports and current events.
- He is considered as one of the best in this foray.
- This is his first foray into the world of fiction.
- DownhillBattle’s latest foray is into online music world.
- It was my first foray into the editing process of the page.
- That was, however, the duo's only foray into the music business.
- It had been a very aggressive foray in the business of education.
- My other Latin American foray—into Cuba—came about by happenstance.
- In the late 1970s, Collins made a foray into writing for the screen.
- The arrangement marks the league's first foray into television broadcasting.
- Left off of the foray is the pony tail girl in leather chaps riding da 'hog'Yeeee Haaaa!
- The Web retailer's foray is part of the battle forming over the booming mobile-apps marketplace.
- Harrison Ford’s other science fiction foray is nothing short of a classic, and one that we’ve seen ripped off countless times since.
- Thus, only a foray from the overall ethical training at least 88 members of Duke’s wonderfully diverse faculty — read, thought police — apparently need.
- This willed nearness to conscious and unconscious life of her fiction — such that her first literary foray is a story about making a new life and her subsequent fictions sustain a bare minimum of grief-stricken life — can be construed as a phantasy that sustains her work of un/mourning.
- Ispahan is mine own country and I have there a cousin, the daughter of my father’s brother, whom I loved from my childhood and cherished with fond affection; but a people stronger than we fell upon us in foray and taking me among other booty, cut off my yard58 and sold me for a castrato, whilst I was yet a lad; and this is how I came to be in such case. —