Sentence examples for the strayed from inspiring English sources
verb
To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
His first volume of verse was The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems.
As the good shepherd, God will feed his flock and will "seek the lost," "bring back the strayed," "bind up the crippled," and "strengthen the weak".
Matthew Arnold's first volume of verse, The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems (1849), combined lyric grace with an acute sense of the dark philosophical landscape of the period.
Alternatively, illness might be caused by soul loss, in which the soul leaves the patient's body and falls into the hands of spirits who are angry with it and therefore torment it; the shaman liberates the strayed soul.
Although one strand of his 2002 novel sends the cat-finder Mr Nakata in search of the strayed Goma, many felines – from the smart Siamese Mimi to the veteran Otsuka – have their idiosyncratic say.
There's a gold-hearted saloon girl in this western too: Jane, the strayed, mistreated wife and mother played by Nastassja Kinski, among the most incandescently artificial blondes in all cinema.
In a culture that rewards the remodelling of the self, "Strayed" is a canny piece of self-agency – a kind of directed lack of direction in which every signpost points to personal overcoming and a slot on the Oprah Winfrey Book Club.
Oblivious to the clouds building in the horizon, many strayed from the shepherded line moving toward the ark in the far distance.
The second strayed into different plotlines, like Milo going too far on his first feature, and Neal having to make cuts at the office because print is struggling.
Guided by troops from Mr. Lei's former unit, those strayed citizens "increased the pace of their mental transformation and shortened the time it took to return to their families and society".
Set in 1940 at the start of the Nazi occupation, "Strayed" (opening Friday) isn't a war movie but an exploration of the way war radically deranges people's lives, for good and ill.
