Sample Sentences forforay (auto-selected)
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Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful. (source)foray = raid; or unusual attempt
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Two decades later, I ran into the teacher who had endured my first foray into kindergarten. (source)foray = attempt to do something new
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One evening I got back to the barracks late from a wood-gathering foray outside the walls.† (source)
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I came back from my spying foray one afternoon to find her playing "Mother May I?" with half the village's children.† (source)
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I was on my weekly foray for water.† (source)
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He could not help feeling that his first foray into Occlumency had weakened his mind's resistance rather than strengthening it, and he wondered, with a feeling of great trepidation, what had happened to make Lord Voldemort the happiest he had been in fourteen years.† (source)
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A successful marketing foray produced the first Brussels sprouts I had found in Iran and I combined them with leeks and carrots, braising them lightly.† (source)
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Every spring she'd escort her little kits on forays into the oak woods and along the slipstreams.† (source)
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I have my mother's thin blood, the kind so easily forayed by a chilly draft, an unexpected rain.† (source)
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Then, on a time, the king called Sir Florence, a knight, and said to him they lacked victual, And not far from hence be great forests and woods, wherein be many of mine enemies with much bestial: I will that thou make thee ready and go thither in foraying, and take with thee Sir Gawaine my nephew, Sir Wisshard, Sir Clegis, Sir Cleremond, and the Captain of Cardiff with other, and bring with you all the beasts that ye there can get.† (source)
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Anyway, Sarah Byrnes and I had decided to lay off Dale Thornton for a while—at least until our wounds healed—and concentrate on an exposé about Mautz's two-headed son, the outcome of his clandestine sexual foray with a group of particularly brutal aliens one night several years back when he was wigged out on cocaine.† (source)
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He speaks for a long time, and his words weave a life before my eyes, the life of a dark-haired, curious-eyed child who snuck out from lessons so he could go adventuring, who waited eagerly at the edge of camp for the men of the Tribe to return from their merchant forays.† (source)
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I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life.† (source)
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Then, on a time, the king called Sir Florence, a knight, and said to him they lacked victual, And not far from hence be great forests and woods, wherein be many of mine enemies with much bestial: I will that thou make thee ready and go thither in foraying, and take with thee Sir Gawaine my nephew, Sir Wisshard, Sir Clegis, Sir Cleremond, and the Captain of Cardiff with other, and bring with you all the beasts that ye there can get.† (source)
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They had been in the illstarred foray but had separated from the others after the shooting.† (source)
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My father was back in Washington, D.C., which made things a lot more fun around my house, primarily because I could sneak out the window again and head to the graveyard for my late night forays.† (source)
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