Sentence examples for there a stray from inspiring English sources

The tract below us, where the athletes performed, was a long, narrow rectangle of hard-packed earth, some thirty-five yards by two hundred and thirty, out of which sprouted here and there a stray stalk or two of weed, like vagrant hairs on a bald man's head.

"A lady got killed at that bus stop right there, by a stray bullet," he said.

Might there be a stray Ativan or two in there as well?

That is, until there's a stray cat turd.

There was a stray shoe, a stray hat, some stray keys.

— DUNCAN IRVING Nani comes off second best in a challenge with Alba and Ramos — there's a stray elbow, I think — and falls to the ground.

Then there's a stray figure who won't be on the train, isn't a musician, but who wants to show his support regardless.

"Sometimes they didn't hold the line, or there was a stray elbow or wrist, but then again it shows that they're not a soulless machine," she said after a performance.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin January 11 , 2013There was a stray, sad moment in the joint press conference that President Obama held with President Hamid Karzai, of Afghanistan, that made one think of valor and loss.

Frances listens to Ella Fitzgerald — "There is something about the lower register of her voice that makes me feel as if I am afloat in an ocean the color of midnight" — and there is a stray mention of the election of 1960.

The person who stole my handbag also committed fraud totalling £135 across my various contactless payment cards, nearly all of which I was eventually able to reclaim (although there was a stray payment to TfL that I didn't spot until later).