You can no longer arrange and edit your memories; stray words or actions take you backward, not forward.

A bonfire on the beach tonight when it'll be too dark for my eye to catch a few stray words of love.

He slew... then I can only read stray words for many lines.

Islands of orange still stuck to the window, but they were just stray words: "away," "world."

Not one stray word or phrase to make you realize that it *WAS a private conversation?

All he speaks is hjjk, and a few stray words of ours.

It is obviously true that young children can latch on to stray words and ideas seeping down from exchanges between careless adults.

If they are obliged to report any stray words, how are they to establish trust with students?

She twisted her cheek-mike away so the next stray word wouldn't draw that awful man's attention.

Similarly, other stray words or phrases summoned instant recognition from all four players, followed by a string of recollections.