A stray thought sparked across my mind: they should have let the girl go.

The stray thought drifted through my mind, and I frowned.

Now he was just a corpse waiting for orders, or a stray thought.

Kate sat up, a stray thought running loose through the back of her mind.

I don't want a single stray thought getting out or in.

They were stray thoughts, coming and going in people's heads.

"Only a stray thought, Toby," he said, "about not being able to help people because they bring trouble on themselves."

On rare occasions they could even pick up a stray thought or two.

Just because a man has stray thoughts about other women doesn't mean that it's a real rejection of them.

Regan looked off as if trying to follow a stray thought.