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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They had been in the illstarred foray but had separated from the others after the shooting.† (source)
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The ministry's ongoing foray into political correctness, Fache argued, was weakening the department.† (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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Sally Jean said that she had heard there was a foray of things to do, Graceland to name just one.† (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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Hardly encouraged by my first foray into thievery, I had decided that today was a begging day.† (source)
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The expedition's many forays into the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific west of South America were of decisive significance as well.† (source)
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