Example Sentences

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Mr Bane said he had woken up when he heard the anchor alarm - which rings if the boat is straying from its mooring - and realised that Sarm was no longer on the yacht.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2025

These days, Defreest is straying away from digital art and creating more tangible pieces, like wall art.

From Salon • Jun. 25, 2023

If a system detects that the vehicle is straying across lane lines, it will issue a warning to the driver.

From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2020

Stanley Hauerwas, a professor emeritus at Duke Divinity School who has written books on virtue, said that giving up plastic is straying too far from what Lent was meant to be.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2019

Yet, if Love be arm'd, they say, Love can scarce keep holiday: Love without his bow is straying!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various