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    Use "foray" in a sentence

    foray example sentences

    foray


    1. The sheer physical effort required for this foray along the corridor left me completely shattered for a good half hour


    2. coughing, when I attempt a foray into the wilds of Bideford,


    3. After another engaging but ultimately unsuccessful foray into the beating heart of Saturday night, Tom spent a quiet Sunday afternoon lazing in the summer sun in a local park


    4. Another foray through the jungle of wandering hands at the bar brings two more beers


    5. I’d never have the nerve to do that myself, and am fascinated to hear about their latest foray – if nothing else, it takes my mind off Simon


    6. Commander Ravena, aboard Lúthien, shall attend Isin and Song's foray aboard the wild card ship


    7. Since his last foray trying to alter the past, Zardino had clearly been concerned Torbin would make some other attempt


    8. He had decided that the next small town they came to would be where a foray in search of supplies would be made, but when Karol informed him that they were within a half-day from Danzig, that plan was set aside


    9. Did this have something to do with his foray, five of the seven years after the beginning of his ministry, into Christian-held (Jewish) territory (Syria, AD 630)? Parts of the Koran appear to be largely copied from these two sources (with the addition of his interpretations)


    10. It was as though true innocence, changed by that foray to the center of the garden, was on careless display in the museum of everything

    11. The thought of spending the rest of her life in some old, dilapidated rented house with Narayan making no foray into a job frightened her


    12. That year, this foray into the islands was a welcome exit from the mainland of Venice at a time when it was being invaded by thousands upon thousands of youngsters from all over Europe who gathered for Pink Floyd’s concert (of sad memory to the Venetians) that preceded an almost full hour of fire-works which annually announce the celebration of the Feast of the Redeemer


    13. No notice was taken as the two recounted the hazardous end to their scouting foray


    14. breathless from the exertion and tension of his recent foray


    15. notice was taken as the two recounted the hazardous end to their scouting foray


    16. “That is the best time for this foray


    17. This slightly unauthorized foray had to succeed


    18. The three that Third Of Those Who Fight was addressing were the last ones of the foray party that were still alive and unhurt


    19. The French trotted back from their latest foray against the Saxon line, nearly coming within good javelin range when one of them stopped short, pointing and crying out


    20. “What was that last foray, Barty?” Ren

    21. The surprise was the words that he whispered in my ear, and that I would remember forever, even years later, whenever I was facing so drastic and final situations such as the ones I was facing there which merited the aid of a foray into the joys of life


    22. To illustrate, Gregory Bateson (1987) spoke of his initial foray into Hawaii to study the communication of dolphins


    23. "They would not split the clan on a foray like this," said Olmec, shaking his head, and regaining some of his ordinary intelligence


    24. Nor was his measured look of deep interest about an unusual intellectual foray with a soundman, as the next few days corroborated…


    25. As was mentioned, over a decade ago bin Laden wanted to attack Iraq for Hussein’s foray into Kuwait


    26. The company launched an ambitious foray into the aerospace sector over twenty-five years ago just before the start of the First World War


    27. I hadn’t brought anything along with me except a couple of candy bars in my pocket since I had expected to be making a short walk and not an extended foray into the wilderness


    28. Part of him wanted to pound the land troll and re-engage the hunt, but another part of him admitted that he would rather not come face to face with a land troll, even as small and weak as they were, on this first foray upon the land


    29. He had shown leadership ability through the troll’s foray into town


    30. Whatever, the final nail on the Nehru dynastic coffin seems to have been struck by her credulous son, Rajiv Gandhi, whom the sycophantic Congress culture imposed upon the nation that is notwithstanding his son Rahul’s late entry into the foray

    31. “Can you wait for a little?” Herne enquired, “and I shall tell you who he was with pleasure, but I would rather do so when you have rested and are ready for our next foray into time


    32. Janet smiled at his foray into the discussion


    33. For example, Northrop Grumman’s foray into Knowledge Management was the direct result of the downturn of the defense industry in the 1990s and the massive layoffs of employees involved in the design and production of the B2 bomber


    34. Aiden stood at the eastern edge of the market that dominated the field just south of Trenant Keep, waiting nervously before his first foray into the battlefield in years


    35. Liam could hear the continued verbal foray as he and Brian wandered off back the way they had come


    36. This was going to be our children's first foray on water


    37. They embarked on a fact-finding foray


    38. They both updated that job list as minor irritants surfaced during the week, and the local hardware store usually profited best from the Saturday morning "bits’n’pieces" shopping foray


    39. Try as she might, she couldn't manage to get him to join her shopping foray for a new holiday wardrobe


    40. made his first foray into a field of activity that would eventually bring him staggering

    41. And he had been proven wrong throughout this little foray time and time again


    42. While he has written books before, this is his first foray into co-authorship


    43. mad foray to the alien ship


    44. Father bringing me along on Talaric’s first foray into war had been in many ways an insult to him or at least he took it as such


    45. Some obtain these testimonials with good intentions, others put them to a cunning use; for when they go to pillage on Christian territory, if they chance to be cast away, or taken prisoners, they produce their certificates and say that from these papers may be seen the object they came for, which was to remain on Christian ground, and that it was to this end they joined the Turks in their foray


    46. They had been in the illstarred foray but had separated from the others after the shooting


    47. The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did how little significance there was to the few calls made upon them, and he knew why the call first, but called with obvious infrequency thereafter


    48. This group was always linked in her mind with Frank’s death, and the late hours Rhett kept these days reminded her still more of the times preceding the Klan foray when


    49. It seemed in any case a wise course for the moment, since this foray


    50. If a trader normally risks $5,000 on a trade, perhaps a foray into a new market would be done in a minuscule size, risking $50 per trade



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    Synonyms for "foray"

    foray maraud raid despoil loot pillage plunder ransack reave rifle strip

    "foray" definitions

    a sudden short attack


    an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)


    steal goods; take as spoils


    briefly enter enemy territory