What's the difference between abroad and astray?

Abroad


Definition:

  • (adv.) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
  • (adv.) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.
  • (adv.) Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.
  • (adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Between 70 and 80% of human Salmonella infections are contracted abroad, mainly outside the Nordic countries.
  • (2) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
  • (3) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
  • (4) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
  • (5) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (6) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
  • (7) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
  • (8) Salinger stayed abroad for five months, mainly in Vienna.
  • (9) Last year more than 4,000 doctors took the first steps towards working abroad.
  • (10) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
  • (11) The Bank cited slower economic growth at home and abroad, especially in the UK's main export markets, as well as problems in the eurozone, and strains on the banking system.
  • (12) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
  • (13) We might have a patient we can’t do anything for and we have to wait for them to die, knowing if they were abroad they could be saved.
  • (14) And there are many others who cannot leave teaching, and so will take their talent abroad, where they are valued much more highly.
  • (15) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
  • (16) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
  • (17) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
  • (18) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.
  • (19) Four of the index cases had recently travelled abroad.
  • (20) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.

Astray


Definition:

  • (adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The single-celled organism has four "watermarks" written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic and help trace its descendants back to their creator, should they go astray.
  • (2) The willingness to ignore their misconduct has led us all astray and increased the public's lack of trust in all journalism.
  • (3) In an article for the New York Times in 2009, Krugman wrote : "As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth."
  • (4) It didn't lure me astray – I'm done with my youthful experimenting – but it did occur to me that it was not all that helpful to parents trying to warn their kids not to try skunk when they could sample it just by breathing the air.
  • (5) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
  • (6) "Market share" and other phrases can lead you astray.
  • (7) He helped us by looking into some money for the area that had gone astray.
  • (8) "Isn't it true he has been led astray by the Tories?
  • (9) This is stuff [Isis] already has.” The Pentagon cleared up some confusion about a cache going astray on Sunday that had subsequently been destroyed in a US strike, once it had been realised it was in danger of falling into Isis hands.
  • (10) Based on a review of the literature it can be said that a main obstacle to a rational approach to prevention and health promotion in the elderly, seems to be on the one side our lack of knowledge of what constitutes effective intervention, and on the other a feeling of great urgency--which may easily lead us astray.
  • (11) But if it was not a giant mental disorder, was there a huge conspiracy that led Tamerlan and Jahar astray?
  • (12) They’re not brainwashed by American R&B or led astray by song lyrics.
  • (13) Clegg came under attack from Harriet Harman yesterday when he stood in for David Cameron at prime minister's questions while students marched on Whitehall to be told that he had been "led astray" by the Tories during the negotiations to form the coalition government.
  • (14) Memory can lead us astray, but then it is a machine with many moving parts, and consequently many things that can go awry.
  • (15) It may have been built on debt and a financial sector going quietly astray, but they enjoyed 40 successive quarters of economic growth.
  • (16) In this paper, will be described how some of the most important advances were made, and where the explorers sometimes went astray.
  • (17) Sally did not see a bank statement from Nationwide for the entire period the money was going astray.
  • (18) Amid all the uncertainty, experts argue that if a warhead had gone astray in that critical period in the early 90s, it would probably have been detonated by now.
  • (19) That she has been led astray and manipulated by the abuser.
  • (20) 'They're scared to write much, in case the letter goes astray.