Word Finder - straying

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To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.

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To wander from one's limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray.

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To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err.

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To cause to stray.

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The act of one who strays; deviation or sin - often sexual infidelity.

Grass had already begun to grow on the garden paths, and horses and calves were straying in the English park.

As a native of Hesse-Darmstadt he ought, according to the academical rules of the time, to have studied and graduated at the university of Giessen, and it was only through the influence of Humboldt that the authorities forgave him for straying to the foreign university of Erlangen.

His thoughts kept straying to a certain pink-haired woman whose scent on his skin was driving him crazy.

The ordinary pelican, the Onocrotalus of the ancients, to whom it was well known, and the Pelecanus onocrotalus of ornithologists, is a very abundant bird in some districts of south-eastern Europe, south-western Asia and north-eastern Africa, occasionally straying, it is believed, into the northern parts of Germany and France; but the possibility of such wanderers having escaped from confinement is always to be regarded,' since few zoological gardens are without examples.

This species occurs on the British coasts (very seldom straying inland) all the year round; but there is some reason to think that those we have in winter are natives of more northern latitudes, while our homebred birds leave us.

Of course, a little make-up and the right clothes could do wonders - which was a good way to wind up straying off the path she had mapped before she left home.

Their past performances could then be checked, and their future actions forecast by the priest; and there was small danger of their straying beyond the limits marked out by authority.

Straying away from the tired bake sale or boring raffle is just the beginning.

She returned to her chair, eyes straying to the screen displaying the timeline of the nuke attacks that had plummeted the eastern part of the country into chaos.

Having you own cat could deter other felines from straying onto your territory.

The compass stays out nonetheless, to avoid inadvertent straying onto the ridge connecting with Ben More Assynt.

Alberto Gilardino then gets pulled up for straying offside.

Host Jon Stewart's monolog was gently satirical without ever straying into controversy, while the various winners seemed at pains to behave themselves.

Throughout the epistle we have a singular combination of the seemingly desultory method of a letter, turning aside at a word and straying wherever the mood of the moment leads, with the firm, forward march of earnest and mature thought.

Host Jon Stewart 's monolog was gently satirical without ever straying into controversy, while the various winners seemed at pains to behave themselves.

They have been on the road for 40 days, straying into stir-crazy territory.

You'll find poems about a straying boyfriend, yearning for love, foolish mistakes, and the power of attraction.

If your goal is to find a creative way to present wedding vows, but you are not particularly artistic and the idea of straying from the traditional format makes you nervous, consider adding a chorus to your vows.

Season six hopeful Chris Sligh has hometown fans worried he is straying from his Christian roots.

You can spray your ends to keep them flipped up or under, spray the pieces around your face to keep them from straying into your eyes, or even add volume by spraying it on your hair while upside-down.

Depending on the person getting the tattoo, black roses and hearts may still be indicative of love and romance, but the dark color can point toward a preference for straying from the norm.

To keep Louis from straying too far off the reservation, Lestat makes another vampire, the young girl Claudia whom Louis briefly fed from.