Sentence examples for for a stray from inspiring English sources

The desperate scrounging in the medicine cabinet for a stray pill to fill the gap?

The Chinese pounce for a stray quarter on the floor; the guards pounce for them.

But he could equally well be a sheep farmer looking for a stray ewe.

All day long, journalists cluster around him, looking for a stray quote or a tidbit of inside information.

Sophie Bentwood, a middle-aged Brooklynite, puts down milk for a stray cat at the beginning of Desperate Characters (1970).

Similarly, the first cache of the Dead Sea Scrolls was discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin looking for a stray animal.

"People are afraid to even go out shopping for fear of a stray bullet.

They hope that if they huddle close enough to a regional power, Assad will not bomb them, for fear of a stray explosion starting a war.

Look for signs of a stray if you suspect one near your home.

Though Donovan has been out of criminal law for years, a stray line references his "service at Nuremberg".

When Eilis is about to leave for America, a stray snatch of dialogue with an unnamed neighbour catches all that her mother does not say to her.