had waylaid
- past perfect of waylay.
Example Sentences
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By December the Broncos weren’t rolling but staggering, bedeviled by an injury epidemic that had waylaid three O-line starters and the team’s top two tight ends.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2019
For I can see thee, that thou art of great honour and worship, and thou didst ride boldly against the foemen when thou knewest not that we had waylaid thy waylayers.
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by Morris, William
"Sir Henry told us a similar story, but then it was you who had waylaid him."
From Heiress of Haddon by Doubleday, William E.
When she had almost reached the house, she started back in terror, as though a ghost had waylaid her; but it was only the dog who rubbed himself affectionately against her.
From Landolin by Auerbach, Berthold
Ata had waylaid the cart that took the mail into Papeete, and besought the man who drove it to go at once to the doctor.
From Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
