We shut off the antiproton beam," Shelby explained, "and encapsulated the stray chronometric particles within a stasis bubble.

A few stray particles of drizzle blew in and clung to the sleeve of his robe.

There were no nooks or crannies to hold stray particles of dirt.

Like Bolan, everyone on the assembly line wore a mask to keep from breathing in stray particles of coke.

Other than a few stray subatomic particles, there's no evidence that anything at all ever existed there.

Should a beam of such high energy begin to disintegrate, the metal struck by stray particles would become radioactive.

And the membrane that sorts the oxygen from the nitrogen must be protected from stray particles in the air, and from ozone.

Fish out any stray particles, which will otherwise burn.

What if a stray cosmic particle struck the computer at the wrong moment?

(The egg white mixture captures any stray particles too fine for the sieve, and the tomato adds color.)