Sentence examples for a stray of from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a stray of" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear what you intend to express with this phrase, as "stray" typically functions as a noun or verb, not as a modifier in this context.
Example: "There was a stray of cats wandering the streets." (This is incorrect; it should be "a stray cat" or "a group of strays.")
Alternatives: "a stray cat" or "a stray animal."

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Do not do this to a stray of course, unless you're saving it and it looks friendly.

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The authorial sin here is not malice or even incomprehension — more like a kind of distraction, a straying of focus.

Her outline is a triangle complicated by a stray strand of ribbon and the feathers of the shuttlecock, very spare.

Weatherbeaten and shimmering, inflected and folded along crystalline angles, it's more like a stray piece of nature than a work of architecture.

Robin and Peggy remain silent on the issue of how, exactly, death will part them, but earlier this year a stray bit of chatter glanced past the conversational barricade.

The chloral-hydrate web is a stray collection of strands.

But even the ginkgo will sometimes surprise horticulturalists with a stray flower of the other sex.

A stray piece of video plays over unconnected audio from NPR.

Footprints have been found before, but usually a single impression on a stray piece of rock.

Could Ms. Nguyen have breathed in a stray puff of spores wafting through Manhattan's canyons?

A stray piece of paper floated down from the sky, and we cringed.

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