straying
- present participle of stray.
Example Sentences
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Or again, this time straying further into Bridgerton territory, the narrator breaks the fourth wall to tease, “I know, dear Reader, that you are taken aback.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Swinney said Hamilton was straying into "incredibly inappropriate territory" and denied trying to sweep the story under the carpet.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
But Venters said that the brand’s namesake designer is still dead-set on the company remaining a stalwart British brand-not straying too far from its cultural origin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The Treasury market has been quiet lately, with 10-year debt barely straying from a yield of 4.3% in April.
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Only the human mind is designed to work in this way, programmed to drift away in the presence of locked-on information, straying from each point in a hunt for a better, different point.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
