Sample Sentences for
decoy
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    The perfect decoy—that was Dana.  (source)
    decoy = something to trick others
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    But Ender began to see how well the buggers used seemingly random flight paths to create confusion, how they used decoys and false retreats to draw the I.F. ships into traps.  (source)
    decoys = something used for trickery -- especially to lure
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    I still wasn't loving the idea of Alex as a decoy bride, but I figured I'd better move things along.†  (source)
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    She was the decoy, the deception, the pretty clean face.†  (source)
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    The director said there would be three decoys.†  (source)
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    I looked over the paper, for I really did not know what he meant, but he took it from me and pointed out a paragraph about children being decoyed away at Hampstead.†  (source)
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    The anguish he had exhibited on the moor subsided as soon as ever he entered Wuthering Heights; so I guessed he had been menaced with an awful visitation of wrath if he failed in decoying us there; and, that accomplished, he had no further immediate fears.†  (source)
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    Do not be decoy'd elsewhere, That is the whistle of the wind, it is not my voice, That is the fluttering, the fluttering of the spray, Those are the shadows of leaves.†  (source)
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    Only needing two trucks, we used a third as a decoy and backup.†  (source)
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    Just like duck decoys in front of a hunter's blind.†  (source)
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    The leaders of the march had been decoyed to Ottawa for "official talks," and the whole kit and kaboodle had been stalled in Regina.†  (source)
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    Her gentle efforts to guide the hand of destiny, by decoying her master with feeble tricks or by reticent considerations—these had not been strong enough to be recognized in the despotism of life.†  (source)
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    I had assumed that it was empty, that it went up in the air as a decoy.†  (source)
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