Israeli soldiers confiscate flocks that stray.
A civilian was killed by a stray bullet.
There are deer and squirrels and stray cats.
a homeless dog; a stray cur - an outcast
In the neighbourhood of the elephant shed, there was a scrawny, poorly fed, stray dog.
The Dead Sea scrolls were found by a shepherd pursuing a stray goat into a cave.
He's a crusty old gentleman who feeds stray dogs and cats.
Rover Mascot stray from the world's most famous families - the Vikings pun.
Then there are the Australians who feel separation pains if they stray from the coast.
The hens and ducks, for instance, saved five bushels of corn at the harvest by gathering up the stray grains.
The explosives in Challenger's self-destruct system might have been set off by a stray radio signal.
Kezia led the way. Like two little stray cats they followed across the courtyard to where the doll's house stood.
It is a habit we need to nurture because our natural tendency is to stray from the here and how to tomorrow, next week or next month.
While most photographers are loathe to let a stray fingerprint near their negatives, Ben Ali Ong chooses to scratch, etch and generally distort his on purpose.
Tess was the merest stray phenomenon to Angel Clare as yet - a rosy warming apparition which had only just acquired the attribute of persistence in his consciousness.
An XP project without a customer is doomed to stray far from what users end up wanting at the end of the project.
Michaelis talked frankly about himself, quite frankly, without affectation, simply revealing his Bitter, indifferent, stray-dog's soul, then showing a gleam of revengeful pride in his success.
Most of the painstakingly built models, including replicas of Scott's cabin and Amundsen's ice-cave workshop, had been moved to the exhibit space, except for a few stray Emperor penguins.
Blair bought a van, gathered some stray musicians into a band called Jaded, set about booking it into pubs, and cruised teen gathering spots handing out leaflets for its gigs.
In rejecting the lives of our mothers, we found ourselves looking for stray volts of mother-love in the very places they would never be found: gin, men, the college, our own mothers, and one another.
One of the few creatures on foot Tuesday was a small stray dog that nosed its way past an emptied patisserie with a placard in its front window advertising a live Flamenco show for March 20.
