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Wayward in sentence

18 examples of Wayward in a sentence

The movie is called "These Birds Walk," and it is about wayward street kids who are struggling to find some semblance of family.
The only other person she sees is the estate caretaker, a lascivious character played by Maxwell Reed, whose caught the wayward eye of the middle-aged aunt.
I think that it turned into a bit of a soap opera to me with all their wayward children and their love lives :) I could watch the first half where William and Sarah first meet over and over though.
The stellar supporting cast qualifies as another substantial plus: Denholm Elliott as a wormy, wayward weakling member of the evil cult, Honor Blackman as Verney's spunky agent Anna Fountain, and Anthony Valentine as Anna's suave boyfriend David.
As is often the case in criminal law, the idea was (and is) more about reassuring public opinion than about preventing wayward behavior.
Even their tax-averse sponsors, while appreciative of the rabble’s efforts to protect their wealth, are now fearful of the impact of these wayward ideas on the investment climate and equity prices.
Its fear of wayward monetary policy is not.
Here, no one will intervene except to reinforce the application of the patriarch's rights – say, in stoning a supposedly wayward girl, or turning a blind eye to so-called “honor killings” of women.
And until the Article 7 procedure is suspended or reversed, those funds should be redirected to support universities, research institutions, and other civil-society groups in that country.This approach would demonstrate to the citizens of wayward countries that the EU does not want to punish them for their governments’ behavior.
This approach would demonstrate to the citizens of wayward countries that the EU does not want to punish them for their governments’ behavior.
The same holds true in regions with well-known but wayward governors such as Kursk with Governor Rutskoi (who led the coup against Yeltsin of October, 1993) and Kaliningrad’s corrupt Governor Gorbenko.
The fact that Xi participated in all three meetings underscores two truths: China’s policy toward North Korea is the key to a solution to the problems posed by North Korea, and China may be actively searching for a new approach to its wayward ally.
Investment should be reined in by imposing greater financial discipline on wayward public enterprises, while the social safety net should be strengthened, so that households would not have to save so much to meet the costs of having children and growing old.
India is a democracy, and Pakistan a wayward democracy.
The West has not been the only party injured as a result of his wayward behavior.
Let him who calls me wild beast and basilisk, leave me alone as something noxious and evil; let him who calls me ungrateful, withhold his service; who calls me wayward, seek not my acquaintance; who calls me cruel, pursue me not; for this wild beast, this basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, wayward being has no kind of desire to seek, serve, know, or follow them.
He was wild, wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the handling of large sums of money.
But a wayward smile began to quiver at the corners of her lips, and on her face a struggle was evident between the timidity of a maiden and the wish to answer; but clearly the wish was victorious, for, looking quickly at Petronius, she answered him all at once with the words of that same Nausikaa, quoting them at one breath, and a little like a lesson learned,--"Stranger, thou seemest no evil man nor foolish."