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How to use astray in a sentence

13 example sentences · adverb

Astray means away from the proper path; in a wrong or unknown direction. Example: “If you keep hanging out with that gang you'll go astray.”

More sentences with astray

  • If you keep hanging out with that gang you'll go astray.From the entry go astray
  • I brought my notes lest faulty memory lead me astray.From the entry lest
  • She was led astray by questionable companions.From the entry lead astray
  • The woman thought her husband had gone astray.From the entry go astray
  • O’Sullivan risked a plant that went badly astray, splitting the reds.2008 April 28, Phil Yates, The Times. From the entry plant
  • But he's quick to point out that not everyone has gone astray.2006, Vibe - Volume 14, Issues 1-6, page 86. From the entry youthman
  • The caipora calls out to the unfortunate person and leads him further and further astray.1942, Donald Pierson, Negroes in Brazil: A Study of Race Contact at Bahia, page 262. From the entry caipora
  • Amazon’s misfires with Alexa may have led Google astray, said a former manager who worked on Google Assistant.2023 March 15, Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, Karen Weise, “How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race”, in The New York Times…. From the entry misfire
  • Intuition pumps, however, can lead us astray.2011, Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl, The Philosopher's Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods, second edition, John…. From the entry intuition pump
  • “Your powers of observation have not led you astray, Wooster.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry matily
  • This mountain you start from white belt and finish at black belt, the path up the mountain will have many twists and turns, and occasionally lead you astray.2013, Aaron Smalley, Developing the Mindset of a Black Belt, page 97. From the entry white belt
  • Not another word could he be induced to utter, and he seemed as unfriended and one might say unfriendable as a frost-bitten Arctic explorer astray on an ice-floe.1957, Van Wyck Brooks, “The Newness”, in Days of the Phoenix: The Nineteen-Twenties I Remember, New York, N.Y.: E. P. Dutton & Company…. From the entry unfriended
  • It is not the technological way of thinking per se that leads us astray; it is the belief that technological values, capabilities and functions are the only things that matter.2005 July 4, Páll Skúlason, Question of Technology. From the entry technologism

Meaning of astray

  1. adverb Away from the proper path; in a wrong or unknown direction.
  2. adverb Away from what is right and good; into error or evil.

Full definition of astray

Questions about astray in a sentence

How do you use astray in a sentence?
Astray is used as an adverb. For example: “If you keep hanging out with that gang you'll go astray.”
What is a short sentence with astray?
“Intuition pumps, however, can lead us astray.”
What does astray mean?
Astray means away from the proper path; in a wrong or unknown direction.

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