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How to use the word stray in a Sentence?

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At the time of the sterilization, we vaccinate the dog only once and then they are released. That’s all the vaccination a stray dog gets in his lifetime and that’s not enough.

Sarungbam Devi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hope it doesn’t stray too far from the original plan, where they could prove the harm. The harm was in housing and in redlining.

Kimberly Holmes-Ross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everything said goodbye to us, however, there is something that stays however, there is something that bemoans, the love that does not expect to be loved, the Love that see in death a dream, in the sunset a golden sadness, in the outrage of years a few stray stars of the sky.

Alexis karpouzos

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1 year ago

Setting aside an hour for a virtual fitness trainer session allows me to not stray from my fitness goals and correctly do my workouts, even with limited machines.

Victoria Mendoza

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's easily a million stray animals right now, if not two million wandering around Ukraine looking for food, and they're going to start mating, and they're in shelters that don't have protection because they don't have enough cages. You're going to have a huge problem, so we said, we need to set up mobile units to go over there and spay, neuter, vaccinate these animals. And then we thought about, and we said, ‘Well, let's work that with Microsoft and put in a chip or read their chips and try to reunite them with their owners,'.

War Relief -RRB- Fine

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My desperation to find him led to an unimaginable journey. I met dozens of people, who out of the goodness of their hearts, spend countless hours rescuing and caring for stray and feral cats, they helped me hand out flyers, hang posters, and search neighbors‘ yards. We set up feeding stations and night vision cameras in areas where sightings were reported.

Margaret Kudzma

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You know, two weeks after I did the eulogy at George Floyd’s funeral I did the eulogy for a 1-year-old kid in Brooklyn killed by a stray bullet in a gang fight, so it is not true that those of us that want police reform do not also at the same time want to deal with crime. And I think that the progressive candidates need to be more out on that.

Al Sharpton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Regardless of what kind of sex and gender system existed in a particular society at a given time, there are pretty much consistently always folks who stray from those norms.

Jules Gill-Peterson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The crews said she was covered in fleas and smelled really bad. You could tell she had been out wandering for quite a while, it was obvious that she was abandoned or a stray.

Jacob McAfee

Found on CNN
3 years ago

One of the main uses of ultra-black materials is to coat the inside of optical equipment to prevent stray light from bouncing around within it, as long as you can create a random array of these nanoparticles that are highly absorbing and the right size and shape, then you should be able to coat anything with it. So there's no need to create some detailed structure to make it work.

Alexander Davis

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In a country where cats are still served as foods and stray cats being mistreated are popular, the event is a chance to raise awareness among people, cat is not a sign of bad luck as many Vietnamese think and should be filled with love.

Nguyen Dieu Hong

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There were 6.5 acres covered with barracks, barbwire fence, sentry towers -- I recognize them, i remembered a stray dog that we adopted who would crawl into the crawl space and peer out from under it. Or the mess hall and the noise and the laughter and so forth.

George Takei

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If a stray tiger comes out of the forest, people know that they will not be killed because of the tiger team. They feel safe.

Anwarul Islam

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In Northern California alone, thousands of stray and unwanted rabbits end up in the municipal shelter systems, and the majority of these rabbits are under a year old.

Anne Martin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In the one to three months after Easter, we traditionally see a spike in shelter rabbit intakes, in Northern California alone, thousands of stray and unwanted rabbits end up in the municipal shelter systems, and the majority of these rabbits are under a year old.

Anne Martin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Look, people are going to make stray comments after meetings, if I paid attention to what the press said, I’d go nuts, and I refuse to do that.

Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Otis can go to Dairy Queen and he can get a hamburger. He’s the only dog allowed to lie down in front of the county court house, he also goes to (the grocery store) H?E?B. He’s not a stray. He’s a good dog.

Salvador Segovia

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Our job here is not to denounce anyone, we do not have a direct focus on the police or on the drug gangs, our focus is really to get people out of the way of stray bullets.

Henrique Coelho Caamaño

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I don’t think they were stray bullets. There were a few shots taken, and we have at least two bullet holes in the truck, now it’s going to be up to the police. Hopefully, the police will get on this and get someone right away and find out what’s going on and why they did it.

Chief John O’Neill

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Maybe they thought, ‘Well, let’s prove that we’re going to stray from the books. We’re going to do something else, and he will be our first example of that.’ So maybe that could have been the case. Or maybe I just screwed up. Maybe I said the wrong thing to the wrong person.

Alexander Siddig

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We take in abandoned, stray and abused animals and find them new homes and that would have been the outcome we would have liked for this dog.

Zach Black

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They have to be very careful they don't stray from the benchmarks as measured by the tracking error.

Nitin Dialdas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We will try to win the election in the right way. Don't stray from the right way because of the rumors and dirty provocations. It is the time to compete against the negative people with our strong spirit.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There’s still so much room in exploring new techniques in cocktails, classic cocktails made with standard mixers and the standard back bar are delicious. You don’t need to stray from that. But once you want to get into things you can’t make with classic techniques, that’s when you need to start pulling in newer techniques. This isn’t just for people interested in buying expensive equipment. It’s something that can work in any bar.

Dave Arnold

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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