How to use "stray" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "stray" in popular movie and book plots

  • McKeag fends them off, but Jacques is shot in the hand by a stray arrow, further scarring him.  - Centennial (miniseries)
  • Annie successfully escapes, running into a friendly stray dog.  - Annie (musical)
  • Jon tries to ask her out, but due to a misunderstanding, he is given custody of a stray dog, Odie.  - Garfield: The Movie
  • Lurie has been keeping a resilient stray from being euthanized, but at the end of the novel "gives him up" to Bev Shaw's euthanasia.  - Disgrace
  • As they make their escape Franko, shouting triumphantly that he has survived, is shot by a stray round.  - The Dirty Dozen
  • Edward runs off during the argument in a fit of rage, destroying some of his works until he is calmed down by a stray dog.  - Edward Scissorhands
  • Later, Scamp sees a pack of stray dogs harassing the dogcatcher outside the yard and becomes intrigued.  - Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure
  • The wizards are then frozen in time for thousands of years by the stray magic left over from creating the continent.  - The Last Continent
  • The next morning the men go out early on a pheasant shoot, and Sir William is slightly injured by a stray birdshot.  - Gosford Park
  • The film concludes as Alfie comes across an old, stray dog and they walk the empty street together.  - Alfie (1966 film)
  • Moments later, however, she is killed by a stray bullet.  - Scarface (1932 film)
  • The children flee down the river with the doll and take sanctuary with Rachel Cooper, a tough old woman who looks after stray children.  - The Night of the Hunter (film)
  • He finds brief solace in a stray dog that finds its way to his house.  - I Am Legend (novel)
  • Fleeing from the scene through the desert, they stray onto a field of rattlesnakes and are both bitten.  - Natural Born Killers
  • The man from the bank boards the steamboat, and turns out to be a Russian wanderer who had happened to stray into Kurtz's camp.  - Heart of Darkness
  • He follows it and instead finds a stray black cat deciding to take it home.  - Batman Returns

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