stray
verb (used without object)
to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose.
am straying
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present progressiveof stray (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"I'm sure if some of the players think I am straying off track, they will tell me."
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2021
Had I been blessed with such a child——But there, I am straying again from our point.
From The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green
But I am straying beyond any boundary that my illustrations could justify.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
But I am straying off from what I was going to say about Jackson's putting an end to the dispute between the two sailors in the forecastle after breakfast.
From Redburn. His First Voyage by Herman Melville
The garden in which I am straying has so many diversions to catch my eye, to engage my attention and to inspire reminiscence that I find it hard to treat of its beauties methodically.
From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field
