The word "strays" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb to mean that someone has gone or deviated from the expected or accepted course. Example sentence: The horses strayed from the path and ended up in a nearby meadow.
It is brilliantly cut as the camera strays sideways from his dancing to stunned miners nursing their pints.
However, Saving Mr Banks strays into dodgy territory when it merges elements of the Mary Poppins story with its author's childhood.
If Australia keep up this form, coax more incisiveness out of Nathan Lyon and find a long-term solution to how their pace bowling attack should cope in the periods when Johnson strays, it is hard to see how any side will stop them reclaiming the top spot in the world.
To my mind, the culture of relentless amateur diagnosing also strays dangerously into the arena of Munchausen syndrome by proxy: in the sense that the parent gets to feel special because their "allergic" child is special – leastways at every mealtime.
In order to keep conversations fresh, we generally close them after a couple of days, or whenever the conversation strays too wildly off topic.
ON THE principle that travel narrows the mind, Bagehot seldom strays too far from his regular orbit: Pall Mall, St James's, sometimes even the House of Commons.
Because kits are now distributed to fewer centres and every ball is coded (so that inspectors can trace strays), manufacturers have better control of production.
The results are visible as soon as one strays beyond the smart government district around the Brandenburg Gate or the posh neighbourhoods near Kurfürstendamm.
Indeed, the history of sail training can be said to have begun on St Valentine's day, 1866, at a London dinner thrown for waifs and strays by the Earl of Shaftesbury, a reforming Victorian and patron of the Ragged Schools.
Releasing the immigrant is far simpler than trying to send him home.Even if countries could be cajoled or bullied into taking back their strays, no imaginable repatriation policy is likely to evict all illegals, so their reluctant hosts need to find ways to deal with them.
But he rarely strays from his message: South Korea's main problems lie elsewhere.
