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Sentences with wayward

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  • ...wayward children with a history of severe emotional problems.
  • wayward fate
  • Teachers should also take a lead in helping correct the misconception of the now wayward pupils.
  • Still, she did a great job of taking the media spotlight off her wayward brother, Michael.
  • A wayward son; wayward behavior.
  • Bulgaria's only attacking weapon was the wayward shooting of Martin Petrov, whereas England's attacking options were awash with movement in the shape of Rooney, Young and Walcott.
  • Now, he shoulders much of the blame for Daniel's wayward behaviour.
  • We've gotten used to blaming parents for the waywardness of their children, when we don't blame the children themselves.
  • A wayward impulse; to be wayward in one's affections.
  • A wayward breeze.
  • Your wayward attitude and ill-conceived policies have done great harm to this country.
  • His threat, seen as a ploy to call wayward allies to heel, prompted a rousing statement of support yesterday.
  • However, in 1998, I changed my wayward behaviour and, within a few months, closed all but one account.
  • The shamans believe this was caused by a wayward spirit who reneged on their deal.
  • ‘Parents say the child is stubborn, wilful and try to put down his waywardness to other things,’ she says.
  • Many believe that the law will destroy efforts to reform a wayward youth.
  • He then had to deal with the increasingly wayward behaviour of his younger daughter, Joanna.
  • I liked it better when it was a home for wayward boys and girls!
  • And the only fully fit fast bowler, James Prior, bowled waywardly in the first innings.
  • Many religious texts legitimise keeping wayward women under control through the use of physical violence.
  • Three out of four New Zealanders want judges given the power to start cracking down on the parents of wayward children.
  • I flatter myself by thinking that some wayward janitor refuses to wash it off because he agrees with the sentiment.
  • Later he was even prepared to rule that wayward parents should be sent on special parenting courses to teach them how to behave better.
  • But now that marriage has gone out of fashion in Britain, our young men are no longer growing out of their wayward behaviour.
  • Anyone who has had to manage wayward or unruly livestock will know that the easiest way to do so is with food.
  • A fabulous young woman leading a project for wayward pupils explained how difficult it was for boys in her community.
  • Spacey plays a man involved with a wayward woman, a selfish, drunken slutty type.
  • She takes the rap for her wayward brother, going to jail for his crimes.
  • It is difficult to find in living memory another example of a head of state who has behaved so waywardly, with the possible exception many years ago of President Lumumba of The Congo.
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