Sentence examples for a stray that from inspiring English sources

He told the family about a dog he'd adopted, a stray that followed him on the dangerous patrols around Quadrat in Nad Ali, Helmand.

The cat, which was a stray that had lived in the neighborhood for a number of years, has since died.

Mr. Cheung recalled that Xiaohwa was a stray that he and Ms. Yu adopted two years ago.

He said she was a stray that intimidated a suicide bomber at his base in Afghanistan, preventing American fatalities.

The fulcrum of the action is Jenny's dog, Hollingsworth, a stray that she picked up after her great-grandfather's death.

He was living alone again, catless, until, a few weeks later, a woman called him about a stray that "looked just like the cat on the poster".

Wimbleydon was an old stray that had been adopted by City in the Kevin Keegan era and was named after the way the Colombian fitness coach, Juan Carlos Osorio, pronounced Wimbledon.

That does not refer to a stray putter that was wielded by guerrillas decades ago and enshrined as a patriotic keepsake.

In 2003, during the halftime of a game against its rival Arsenal that Man United was losing, Ferguson got so furious he kicked a stray boot that hit David Beckham above the eye and created a gash that needed stitches.

But Mrs. Edwards, who died of breast cancer in December 2010, confided in Ms. Reynolds, a close friend, that she had found a stray cellphone that cast doubt on her husband's honesty.

It was hard to see much beyond personal pique that led them (and their staffs) to squabble in December over the jurisdiction of a stray deer that turned up in a Harlem housing project.