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USF Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

stray over and stray back

I tried to look up in dictionaries and use samples in Google and COCA, but I couldn't understand these verbs.
I would appreciate it if you could explain them to me. Thanks.
  

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Stray is a verb that means wander off, or to go somewhere unintentionally, without thinking about where you are going. It can be used with many different propositional phrases Baby antelopes do not stray far from their protective mothers. The jet strayed into restricted airspace.

  • Stray is a verb that means wander off, or to go somewhere unintentionally, without thinking about where you are going.
  • It can be used with many different propositional phrases Baby antelopes do not stray far from their protective mothers.
  • The jet strayed into restricted airspace.
  • The hikers strayed over the boundary line.
  • If the deer stray out of the national park, they might be shot by hunters.
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Stray is a verb that means wander off, or to go somewhere unintentionally, without thinking about where you are going. It can be used with many different propositional phrases

Baby antelopes do not stray far from their protective mothers.
The jet strayed into restricted airspace.
The hikers strayed over the boundary line.
If the deer stray out of the national park, they
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