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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

She had waylaid the well-known figure from whom she had formerly fled, and her end was attained.

From Leonore Stubbs by Walford, L. B.

John learns that Lorna is, after all, not a Doone, but the daughter of a family the Doones had waylaid.

From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Pearson, Paul M. (Paul Martin)

She could not shake off the notion that he had waylaid her this morning for a purpose wholly unconnected with the suggested visit to the polo ground.

From A Son of the Immortals by Christy, Howard Chandler

There it was—the old ghost, called up to haunt his present as it had waylaid his past.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie