Foray

Word FORAY
Character 5
Hyphenation for ay
Pronunciations /ˈfɒ.ɹeɪ/

Definitions and meanings of "Foray"

What do we mean by foray?

A sudden raid or military advance. noun

A venture or an initial attempt, especially outside one's usual area. noun

To make a raid. intransitive verb

To make inroads, as for profit or adventure. intransitive verb

To ravage; pillage.

To engage in a foray; pillage.

The act of foraging; a predatory excursion. noun

Synonyms Incursion, Raid, etc. See invasion. noun

A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. noun

To pillage; to ravage. transitive verb

A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. noun

A brief excursion or attempt especially outside one's accustomed sphere. noun

To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. verb

To pillage; to ravage. verb

An initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence) noun

A sudden short attack noun

Briefly enter enemy territory verb

Steal goods; take as spoils verb

A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

A brief excursion or attempt, especially outside one's accustomed sphere.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Foray

The word "foray" in example sentences

Left off of the foray is the pony tail girl in leather chaps riding da 'hog'Yeeee Haaaa! ❋ Tim Romano (2007)

The Web retailer's foray is part of the battle forming over the booming mobile-apps marketplace. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This willed nearness to conscious and unconscious life of her fiction — such that her first literary foray is a story about making a new life and her subsequent fictions sustain a bare minimum of grief-stricken life — can be construed as a phantasy that sustains her work of un/mourning. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Harrison Ford’s other science fiction foray is nothing short of a classic, and one that we’ve seen ripped off countless times since. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thus, only a foray from the overall ethical training at least 88 members of Duke’s wonderfully diverse faculty — read, thought police — apparently need. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ispahan is mine own country and I have there a cousin, the daughter of my father’s brother, whom I loved from my childhood and cherished with fond affection; but a people stronger than we fell upon us in foray and taking me among other booty, cut off my yard58 and sold me for a castrato, whilst I was yet a lad; and this is how I came to be in such case. — ❋ Unknown (2006)

DownhillBattle’s latest foray is into online music world. ❋ Unknown (2004)

My other Latin American foray—into Cuba—came about by happenstance. ❋ Daniel Schorr (2001)

Among the six followers accompanying the chestnut on his foray was a young dun-colored mare, and in recent weeks she had been keeping close to him and he to her. ❋ Michener, James (1974)

The foray was a crazy idea, and Shann wondered again why he had agreed to it. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

There could be no reprieve; there would be no armistice until this foray was a fait accompli. ❋ Unknown (1944)

Hope, the West's gloriously titled foray into Somalia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A bid for national unity, Mr. Hais calls his foray across Iraq's entrenched sectarian divide. ❋ By ANTHONY SHADID (2010)

Restore Hope, the West's gloriously titled foray into Somalia. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The younger Domingo called his foray into the singing world "inevitable." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Four years later Chris called his foray into pay per post an experiment as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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