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Example sentences for "astray"

Lexicographically close words:
astraddle; astragal; astragalus; astral; astrals; astre; astride; astringency; astringent; astringents
  1. On account of Peppi's honesty in general I am sorry to have lost her for which reason I made her certificate more favorable than that of the old woman, and she appears to have been led astray by the old woman but that P.

  2. I 'ave led men and women astray in this saloon.

  3. You see, it is this way: many who seem evil have gone astray because they have not had the influence of a good mother or sister or wife.

  4. We have seen thee, poor lad, with thy wits gone astray for a time, but all thy thoughts sought rather God's will in forbidden places, than lost the clue to them for one moment in hankering after the powers of darkness.

  5. But this affair worked seriously in the head of the King's judge; he took it to heart that he had been so ignominiously led astray by his ideas, and feared that the upshot would bring him to eternal ridicule.

  6. I see that I have been led astray by that inconsiderate man Dr.

  7. I will henceforth consider myself as a widow; whose husband still lives, led astray by a wanton worthless person, and drawn away from his lawful wife.

  8. It has even been conjectured that the two tiny moons of Mars and the four smaller satellites of Jupiter may be asteroids gone astray and captured by those planets.

  9. If it be, then our universe is a single atom astray in the infinite; it is the only island in an ocean without shores; it is the one oasis in an illimitable desert.

  10. P: Bethink you: If it is from Allah and ye reject it - Who is further astray than one who is at open feud (with Allah)?

  11. But who doth more wrong than one who invents a lie against Allah, to lead astray men without knowledge?

  12. P: Those of the Children of Israel who went astray were cursed by the tongue of David, and of Jesus, son of Mary.

  13. S: For surely if Thou leave them they will lead astray Thy servants, and will not beget any but immoral, ungrateful (children) 071.

  14. Y: "He did lead me astray from the Message (of Allah) after it had come to me!

  15. P: It was never Allah's (part) that He should send a folk astray after He had guided them until He had made clear unto them what they should avoid.

  16. They indeed have gone astray and are not guided.

  17. S: And indeed they have led astray many, and do not increase the unjust in aught but error.

  18. S: Certainly he led me astray from the reminder after it had come to me; and the Shaitan fails to aid man.

  19. S: And they set up equals with Allah that they may lead (people) astray from His path.

  20. You have done me no injustice, you did not lead me astray and you made me no promise.

  21. Qui s’excuse s’accuse—and he is getting to be too well known to lead people astray longer.

  22. She took him into her house, washed and dried the bag, gave him apples, and sent him home happy, telling him not to let the cock lead him astray again.

  23. There was a maiden who went astray In the golden dawn of her life’s young day.

  24. There was a man, it was said one time, Who went astray in his youthful prime.

  25. The subject who has never been conscious of deceit, but, led astray by his unconscious, has deceived himself from the beginning and finished as a Dissociate.

  26. Both the dreamers, who were of the male sex, had suffered from gross hysterical manifestations, or, in other words, had been woefully led astray by the unconscious concerning something other than prophecy.

  27. This honesty of the main personality of the Dissociate leads astray professors of physics or of the old psychology.

  28. His senses, never the servants, and often the masters of reason, have carried him astray in pursuit of pleasure.

  29. He has evidently gone astray and fallen from his true place, unable to find it again.

  30. Those who go astray only do so from failing to see one of these two things.

  31. The Egyptians were infected both with idolatry and magic, even the people of God were led astray by their example.

  32. Every day, when he sees how often we have gone astray from him, he repeats to us, Could ye not watch with me one hour?

  33. When the sheep that went astray Turns again to virtue's way; When the soul by grace subdued Sobs its prayer of gratitude, Then is there joy in heaven!

  34. It is the one true light, When other lamps grow dim, 'T will never burn less purely bright, Nor lead astray from Him.

  35. She had not gone far enough astray to lie consciously; she was, as yet, only telling lies to herself.

  36. For was not this New Light sent here by Satan to lead astray one of his flock?

  37. Do not be led astray by worldly affections; they are sure to entrap you.

  38. But as we wandered along, chatting in an intimate way, as only men gone astray from home will chat when they meet on the highways of the world, he seemed to grow more cheerful.

  39. Primitive these people are; their instincts, never led astray very far by such frills and trappings as keep us jogging along are none the less human.

  40. In very suggestible persons the sexual appetite may be easily led astray by sensory impressions created by perverse images.

  41. But even in him, excesses leave traces which later on may easily lead him astray when he becomes tired of the monotony of conjugal relations with the same woman.

  42. Had his imagination led him astray again?

  43. With a humble and simple heart you will work among us here and will not allow yourself to be led astray by any worldly laughter and mockery (at this point a glance and an imaginary blow with the whip struck her beautiful daughter Kleophea).

  44. She is already astray in mind: the wretched germ is entirely developed, and is doubtless hereditary.

  45. How he had gone astray he could not tell.

  46. Papa, I believe you are 'astray in mind' yourself!

  47. It may be noted of Montesquieu, and as often of Voltaire, that each of them is constantly led astray by imperfect knowledge of foreign, and especially of barbarous and savage nations.

  48. Men do not go astray on account of the things of which they are ignorant, but of those which they think they know.

  49. The days were spent in revelry, and the nights in shameless debauchery; the prevailing depravity led astray both the people and the army.

  50. If we are led astray by it, we must be led astray by a light from heaven.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "astray" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.