stray
IPA: strˈeɪ
noun
- Any domestic animal that has no enclosure nor proper place and company, but that instead wanders at large or is lost; an estray.
- One who is lost, literally or figuratively.
- An act of wandering off or going astray.
- (historical) An area of common land for use by domestic animals generally.
- (radio) An instance of atmospheric interference.
- Ellipsis of stray bullet. [A bullet that, after being fired from a gun, hits an unintended target.]
verb
- (intransitive) To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
- (intransitive) To wander from company or outside proper limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.
- (intransitive) To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.
- (transitive) To cause to stray; lead astray.
adjective
- Having gone astray; strayed; wandering
- In the wrong place; misplaced.
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Examples of "stray" in Sentences
- He was told not to stray.
- It should not be strayed from the place.
- I asked you not to stray from the place.
- The mark is strayed from the proper spot.
- Why did it stray from the original place
- When I heard that he strayed, I got angry.
- The mother was worried about her son who strayed.
- I will not accept you to stray from where you are.
- How do he and Bobbie stray from the family paradigm?
- The soldier was shot because he strayed his position.
- Heber's head had been slightly grazed by a stray pellet.
- Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
- Over the years, as we took in 'stray' boys, they learned this habit, too.
- Different situations but an amazing movie that DOES NOT stray from the original story line … You moron
- If his show gets run on the radio today, I predict he will stray from the Haitian effort as much as possible.
- Without taking proper preventive measures, our idea of the sanctified record from which publications may not stray is likely to be further and further eroded.
- She nobly takes it as a compliment, but mildly disagrees that The Incredible Machine sounds nothing like country, then totally dismisses the notion that this is a deliberate attempt to completely stray from the music that made Nashville famous.
- Microsoft Security Response team spokesman Christopher Budd this morning declined to stray from a vague company statement about whether Microsoft can design and test a patch in time for its once-a-month security update, otherwise known as Patch Tuesday, which falls on July 14.
- To all members of the enlightening, noble spiritual community, who never stray from the thoroughly liberating adamantine city, who possess the wisdom eye that directly sees the profound truth and the highest valour to destroy all machinations of cyclic existence, to you, we offer our prayers with fervent devotion: