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

But I am straying beyond any boundary that my illustrations could justify.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

In yon far vale, earth's truest wife Sits where the brooks run playing, And still must wear a woeful life Till I with her am straying.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

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 Field, Eugene

But I am straying too far from the purpose of this letter.

From Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met by Brown, William Wells