Sentence examples for like stray from inspiring English sources

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Passengers were scattered like stray cats throughout the plane.

Sometimes he would curse at them like stray dogs.

Back then, he thought of them as "uncivilized and filthy, like stray dogs".

Journalists are shot like stray dogs in Pakistan — easily killed because their assassins sit at the pinnacle of power.

Words ricochet around the tiled room like stray gunshots: "Did we fire 23?" "Fifty-four said no bacon".

Without urgent and transformative action, today's conflagrations will seem like stray sparks compared to the wildfires to come.

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Such people don't like straying far from their comfort zones.

12. Stressing out friends and acquaintances who don't like straying from the original plan.

For people who like to stray from traditional colors when decorating for the holidays, this contemporary bouquet of white roses is perfect.

If I raised a hand, they'd flinch like strays.

She declined to be more specific because she's a poet — in another cultural rarity — whose starry-eyed fans show up uninvited on her doorstep like strays.

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