Sample Sentences forwaylay (editor-reviewed)
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I worried that the gang might be waiting outside to waylay me.waylay = ambush
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She waited near the exit to waylay him and learn more about the event.waylay = intercept unexpectedly to talk
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She is determined not to let any distractions waylay her progress on the project.waylay = stop (progress)
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The thief waylaid the courier and stole the valuable package.waylaid = stop unexpectedly
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The bandits planned to waylay travelers on the narrow mountain path.
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I feel if I don't get outside immediately, I'll just go ballistic, but I'm still in Special Defense when I'm waylaid by Haymitch. (source)waylaid = stopped unexpectedly
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Told her that Cook sent us to get crowleaf from the storage room by the barracks and that Marcus waylaid us on the way back. (source)
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It was they who told me that three of them had come down from the mountains and settled in the woods not far from the road; they had frightened everyone away from the district, and they waylaid strangers. (source)waylaid = ambushed
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Insisting that he needed to sleep, and almost flattening the little Creevey brothers as they attempted to waylay him at the foot of the stairs, Harry managed to shake everyone off and climb up to the dormitory as fast as he could. (source)waylay = stop
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However, he'd seen some of the more prominent Vigil members waylaying kids in the corridors, checking on their sales, whispering menacingly to those who had sold only a few boxes.† (source)
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Josef waylays me outside the museum and announces I have driven him to despair: because of the way I've treated him, he is leaving Toronto forever.† (source)
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D—, I presume, is not altogether a fool, and, if not, must have anticipated these waylayings, as a matter of course.† (source)
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Three charming girls from the Bureau of Propaganda by Synthetic Voice waylaid him as he stepped out of the lift. (source)waylaid = stopped unexpectedly
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After dinner broke up, Jason and Piper tried to waylay Leo.† (source)
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I looked at the white faces of Pease and Reynolds; I imagined their waylaying me, killing me.† (source)
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He waylays the smaller boys to punch their unprotected heads, and calls challenges after me in the open streets.† (source)
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He could not have failed to anticipate—and events have proved that he did not fail to anticipate—the waylayings to which he was subjected.† (source)
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