Example Sentences

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I sent him on a long scavenger hunt, then decoyed him in for a backhand drop and flicked it crosscourt into open space.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2016

But then: "The tempter came, like the serpent of Eden, and decoyed them with the majic word of 'freedom.'"

From Time • Apr. 7, 2011

Minister of State Louis Jac-quinot and Minister for the Sahara Max Lejeune had been decoyed from the general's side and confined in an isolated office under temporary guard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once it lands on the camouflaged rim, the decoyed bug is helpless, the victim of a slippery substance that can neutralize the suction cups on a fly's feet.

From Time Magazine Archive

He made a clever show of becoming eager, though he knew that he was only being decoyed to a final plunge.

From Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout by Leighton, Robert