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
If he did—But I am straying away from the lights and shadows of this magic morning, which are far more delightful than the arcadian rhapsodies of Sannazzaro and of Bembo.
From Naples Past and Present by Arthur H. Norway
I am straying among my thoughts and look at the matter in a different light every day.
From Without Dogma by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
But I am straying from Juliet’s tomb, and the subject of unlimited faith.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
