Sentence examples for keeps stray from inspiring English sources

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This makes it go farther and keeps stray hair or lint from tilting it out of line, making it useless for knocking out targets.

Bodies burnt to ashes wait to be removed by absent funeral services; corpses in an advanced state of decomposition have a strong smell that even keeps stray dogs away.

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His hand keeps coming into contact with the fold, caressing and readjusting it in a way that reminds Dhoorre of a vain young woman, just returned from her hairdresser, whose hand keeps straying to her expensive hairdo.

But as I watch the excitement outside the hospital in Marylebone, my petty mind keeps straying to the tiny tots at the infant schools four miles away beside my house who I know are arriving each day starving hungry.

It is as if the older Stew, restrained and reflective, is trying to keep in check a cartoon version of himself that keeps straying from his grasp and getting into trouble.

Her attention keeps straying, on set or at a press conference, to thoughts of her elderly mother, Ada (Giulia Lazzarini), who is lying in a hospital, with a failing heart and lungs.

That is why the Tour de France keeps straying beyond its borders.

Signing off, Ginsberg told Snyder, "I keep straying on mental anger warpaths, then come back to milking goats".

Any confusion is compounded if you don't speak German, since your eyes keep straying from Mr. Wilson's stage imagery to the supertitles above it.

My attention kept straying to Chinese members of the Dublin audience, wondering what the effect of familiar language but foreign theatrical traditions must be like for them.

And his hand… it  kept straying up past his face for a moment and then back down again, anchoring itself to his cheek, just in front of his ear.

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