Sentence examples for I go astray from inspiring English sources
The America I pray will be a just, caring, but stern mother whenever I go astray.
"In short, I was about fifteen when I went astray.
Yes, I had liked the shrimp I'd met when I went astray.
In this artificial paradise, he has stoned sex with Megan, his lovely second wife, gazes at a faux luau, and relaxes on the beach while reading Dante's Inferno: "Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road, and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood".
This refers to the first line of Dante's Inferno, 'Midway in our life's journey, I went astray'.
In my pursuit of pleasing people, I think I went astray in the way I made records.
"I have the passing terror that it isn't so simple, that in these ultimate matters time is collapsed into a single moment in which you are forever in danger of having the knife tilt the other way, as though, if I am not careful between here and the parking lot, I might go astray and she will be canceled, stolen back by not-being, like a thief grabbing her through an open window.
"He just swam next to me and herded me very gently like a very loving sheepdog seeing that I didn't go astray out into the ocean".
It contains references to singer Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" (1983), with lyrics like "Girls, they just wanna have some fun" and "The room is spinning / It must be the Tanqueray / I'm about to go astray / My inhibitions gone away".
When in 2010 Forest just missed out on promotion to the top division after losing to Blackpool he lamented: "I guess we saw £90m go astray in 90 minutes".
