Inside my own sewing box was an angry tangle of neglected thread, stray buttons and snippets of green felt adorned with jingling bells -- a memento from the long-ago year when someone needed an elf costume.
In cases of neglected or stray animals, poor people may just not have enough resources to adequately care for their pets and do not know that there are organizations that can help.
Florida law incorporated by Ordinance 87-40 sanctions euthanasia of "stray, neglected, abandoned, or unwanted animals," Fla.Stat.
3. Animal Protection and Outreach: With fewer than 20 officers to cover 900 square miles of Austin and Travis County, Animal Protection officers have to be creative and compassionate to help all of the area's stray, neglected and abused animals.
Stray, neglected dogs are common to many Caribbean islands (and also throughout the Third World), but Puerto Rico is an interesting case because it is a U.S. territory, subject to American-style animal cruelty laws.
Ellie Prodromou, a writer and editor who is based in Sydney, Australia, founded The Penny Marathon, a charity that aids stray, abandoned and neglected pets, after becoming attached to a stray dog she called Penny while living in Greece.
He might be a small-time drug dealer who neglected his children before a stray bullet ended his life.
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noun. 1 a homeless and helpless person, esp. a neglected or abandoned child: she is foster-mother to various waifs and strays.
Having neglected to bring a blanket, he slept against the base of the tower, under some stray boards that he fashioned into a structure resembling a coffin.
There were stray halfpennies and dressmaker's pins in the dust on the dressing table, neglected letters in manila envelopes were propped against the mirror, and one of Paul's football boots was wrapped in a plastic bag, waiting to be repaired.
